0303 | The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Context: Read this on my e-reader while walking to and from work. First book I’ve read on my 5 min commute. REVIEW Wow. What a book! And not just because…
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302 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells
Context: Finished this over a plate of beans one lunchtime. REVIEW Wells was a genius who was way ahead of his time in being able to grasp some of the…
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0300 | The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context: Started and finished this in the garden as I’ve taken to 30 mins a day pottering around there ridding my body of office toxins. REVIEW The first audio book…
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0297 | Super Cannes – J. G. Ballard
Context: Started reading this on the gorgeous Thorntons Beach just south of Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia. Seems like a million years ago now! REVIEW This was quite a strange chilling…
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0296 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Context: This was the first book I finished in our new home in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Long ago, I saw the film of this book and…
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0293 | The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Context: The local equivalent of a bell in the village where I read this is a garamut, a wooden drum as pictured. REVIEW I’m not really one for whodunnits, mysteries…
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0292 | The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Context: The liklik haus or outhouse where I began reading this book in Male. REVIEW Read a number of Stevenson’s works (I’ve reviewed Treasure Island and Jekyll & Hyde on…
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0291 | Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Context: Read this each night as I lay down to sleep under our mosquito net in the village. REVIEW What a beautiful book to have read in a place so…
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0290 | The Plague – Albert Camus
Context: Read this while we screened the Jesus Film on a generator at the Foursquare Church in Male, PNG. REVIEW It seems entirely appropriate that I should finish this book…
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0284 | The Handmaid’s Tale–Margaret Atwood
Context: Read this while we hosted many villagers on our large veranda in PNG. REVIEW I’ve read a number of Atwoods but nothing comes close to this. Somehow she’s managed…
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0280 | Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Context: Finished this off in the midst of packing for five weeks living in a village in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW This took a lot of getting through. Thankfully I’d…
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0279 | The Return of the Native –Thomas Hardy
Context: Listened to this over weeks while travelling through Korea, Japan and Australia to emigrate to Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Some Hardy I like. Others I do not. This fell…
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0278 | A Dry White Season – Andre Brink
Context: Finished this the weekend we started cooking our own food in shelters we’d built ourselves called haus kuks. REVIEW Seems to be a season of South Africa! Following…
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0276 | The Life & Times of Michael K – J. M. Coetzee
Context: Finished this book off and read most of it under the haus win shelter at Nobnob in Madang, PNG. REVIEW This is a curious little book about a man…
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0275 | A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Context: Finished this off on Trinity Beach just north of Cairns which is mentioned often in this novel. REVIEW A very, very long time ago, I was a teenage boy….
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0274 | The Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
Context: Read this as we took our first flight on the double-decker A380 from Dubai to Seoul. Very nice. REVIEW Never heard of this until, scanning my copy of the…
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0272 | The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
Context: Packing our final bags for emigrating to Papua New Guinea REVIEW This is a moving portrayal of life in India shortly after the reign of Indira Ghandi when, in…
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0271 | Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Context: Read this as we cleared out our stuff from our lovely flat in Bar Hill. REVIEW Heard a lot about this novel and watched most of the film with…