Elif the ReaderMikumari is the shortest coming of age/love/awakening story I’ve ever read. It is about a schoolboy and his affairs with a married woman. On the other hand, it…
Letters from Father Christmas is an excellent book for the ones who want to get into the Christmas spirit. For every Christmas Tolkien wrote letters to his children.…
Austrian author Christiane Ritter wrote A Woman in the Polar Night in 1934, on her return to Austria from Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. She spent a year…
I’ve read A Walk Across the Sun for my book club and it made me think hard about human nature and authors. Why does man write? Some of…
William Trevor, an award-winning author with many awards, is one of the best authors from Ireland. Most critics call him the best observer out there, and I think…
At the Edge of the Wood is the first book I’ve read from Masatsugu Ono and it won’t be the last. This book was complicated, shocking, and managed…
The Girl Who Is Getting Married is not one of those stories that you get to read every day. It is strange, sophisticated, beautiful and complicated all at…
I was looking to read a beautiful book about Christmas when I realised that there are hundreds of books out there and it is tough to make a…
The Tropic of Cancer will blow your mind. It will feel like a breath of fresh air. It will also make you question the course of your life.…
I first saw Tolkien: The Maker of Middle-earth at the Bodleian Library in Oxford; I was officially fascinated. The price and the weight had scared me a little,…