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Books I Read in August 2026
Sep 17, 2026 · original
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout is a stand-alone novel separate from the Olive Kitteridge universe and has been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. It tells the story of Artie Dam, a middle-aged history teacher living by … Continue reading →
Books I Read in July 2026
Aug 23, 2026 · original
Departure(s) by Julian Barnes is the Booker Prize-winning author’s final novel, published earlier this year on his 80th birthday. I included it in my list of Booker Prize predictions last month, although it is also a hybrid memoir which details Barnes’ … Continue reading →
The Booker Prize 2026 Longlist
Jul 30, 2026 · original
The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday. The 13 books are: The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis Switzy by Emma Cline Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman The End of Everything by M. John … Continue reading →
The Booker Prize 2026: Predictions, Preferences and Possibilities
Jul 26, 2026 · original
My Booker Prize predictions list is an annual tradition, although based on my track record for predictions in recent years, I have probably scuppered the chances of my choices below. Any novel originally written in English and published in the … Continue reading →
Books I Read in June 2026
Jul 21, 2026 · original
Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry is an account of the final days of the author’s father-in-law, David, who died just nine days after receiving a cancer diagnosis in 2022. Perry and her husband Rob nursed David at … Continue reading →
Books I Read in May 2026
Jun 21, 2026 · original
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans became a word-of-mouth bestseller last year and recently won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It is an epistolary novel told entirely through letters, most of which are written over several years by septuagenarian Sybil van … Continue reading →
Books I Read in April 2026
May 25, 2026 · original
Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2025. A former journalist and researcher for the campaigning group HOPE not hate, Shukman went undercover … Continue reading →
Books I Read in March 2026
Apr 24, 2026 · original
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams is an account of the author’s employment at Facebook as a director of global public policy, working closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for six years. Hailing from New Zealand with a professional background … Continue reading →
Books I Read in February 2026
Mar 22, 2026 · original
Leaving Home by Mark Haddon is the author’s memoir about his parents and growing up in Northampton in the 1970s. It is a lavishly illustrated book – Haddon is a talented artist as well as an author – which has … Continue reading →
Books I Read in January 2026
Feb 22, 2026 · original
The Haunted Wood by Sam Leith is a survey of childhood reading from Aesop to J. K. Rowling. With a focus on British children’s literature, Leith examines how ideals of what childhood should look like have shifted over the years … Continue reading →
My Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Jan 11, 2026 · original
As always, I have been keeping an eye on new books coming soon in 2026, despite already having so many other books on my TBR list… In fiction, Departure(s) by Julian Barnes is said to be the Booker Prize-winning author’s … Continue reading →
My Books of the Year 2025
Jan 10, 2026 · original
The 2025 debut novels which will stay with me are Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell about an emotionally abusive marriage and We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown about three teenage girls growing up in Doncaster. I also thought the … Continue reading →
Books I Read in December 2025
Jan 3, 2026 · original
Homesick by Peter Apps is a study of the current housing crisis in London. The specific failures that led to the fire at Grenfell Tower are covered in Apps’ excellent book Show Me The Bodies, while Homesick examines the broader … Continue reading →
Books I Read in November 2025
Dec 20, 2025 · original
The Bookseller of Hay by James Hanning is a biography of Richard Booth, the second-hand bookseller who helped establish Hay-on-Wye as the book town of Wales. To say that Booth, the self-proclaimed King of Hay, was a bit of a … Continue reading →
Books I Read in October 2025
Nov 25, 2025 · original
Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals by Chris Newens sees the expat Englishman tour the 20 arrondissements of the French capital, sampling the local cuisine of each neighbourhood. There are visits to iconic venues such as the famous Les Deux … Continue reading →
Books I Read in September 2025
Oct 25, 2025 · original
The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith is the eighth book in the Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott series. This instalment sees the detective duo investigate the identity of a dismembered corpse in the vault of a silver shop. Decima Mullins … Continue reading →
Books I Read in August 2025
Sep 21, 2025 · original
It’s rare for me to binge-read multiple books from a series close together, but having devoured the Apple TV series Slow Horses earlier this year, I gulped down the first four books of the Slough House series by Mick Herron … Continue reading →
Books I Read in July 2025
Aug 22, 2025 · original
First published in 2000, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is the celebrity chef’s memoir of working in restaurants in New York City. In a loose collection of anecdotes, some drawn from magazine articles, Bourdain recounts how he started out as … Continue reading →
The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist
Jul 29, 2025 · original
The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize was announced today. The 13 books are: Love Forms by Claire Adam The South by Tash Aw Universality by Natasha Brown One Boat by Jonathan Buckley Flashlight by Susan Choi The Loneliness of … Continue reading →
The Booker Prize 2025: Predictions, Preferences and Possibilities
Jul 27, 2025 · original
It’s that time of year again… I haven’t had much success with my Booker Prize predictions in the last couple of years, but it’s still fun to consider which books might appear on the longlist, due … Continue reading →

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