0104 | To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Context: Finished this under a holly tree, by a pond at a friend’s house in Hertford, UK. REVIEW This novel is scarcely 200 pages long. Yet Woolf manages to load…
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0076 | The Bible in English ~ David Daniell
Context: Read over two years after I picked this up on a snowy day at Borders in Stockton.REVIEW This took me two years to read. But it wasn’t because it…
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0073 | A Fine Balance ~ Rohinton Mistry
Book in Context: This book kept me company one long weekend on the Seoul subway. REVIEW What a powerfully moving book. After a year of my life in India, this…
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0043 | Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW This is a profoundly moving book made all the more poignant for the era in which it was…
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0005 | Survival in the Killing Fields – Haing Ngor
REVIEW: Chilling, engaging, honest and tragic from beginning to end. Haing Ngor’s life couldn’t have been imagined and written as fiction if someone had sat down and tried to make…
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0003 | Cancer Ward – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
REVIEW I started this wondering where the novel was going to come from. Then it crept up and hit me with such force that I was left reeling for the…