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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of Klara and the Sun I read recently. Like Klara and the Sun, Never Let Me Go is also a dystopian novel narrated through the quiet, reflective voice and written from the character’s point of view. In this case, the…
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Mr. Skeffington is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, who is climbing the list of my favourite authors. I previously read The Enchanted April and Love. This book continues with the same literary style, and von Arnim wrote a compelling story. The story is very similar, in its historical context, to…
Authors: A group of authors (links below) The Time Traveler’s Passport is a series of novella/long stories (about 50 pages each) recommended by the New York Times and published by Amazon. The series is available on Kindle Unlimited, and it was released this month. Needless to say, I grabbed it immediately, and I read all…
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, who previously won a Nobel Prize in Literature. Klara and the Sun is set in near-future America, and the story, interestingly, is narrated by Klara, an Artificial Friend (AR) that elites buy for their children. The story is generally a class story…
Author: Judy Leigh Chasing the Sun is a book by Judy Leigh, an author whose many books I’ve read this year. As with all of her books, this one also narrates a story of senior women. The story in Chasing the Sun centres on Molly, a newly widowed woman who turns seventy and realises that…
Author: Laura Pearson The Last List of Mabel Beaumont is one of the books that Amazon’s algorithm recommended. I was not intrigued by the title, but I took the book because these recommendations have so far been good. I had the book on my Kindle Unlimited for ages and only read it now to clear…
Author: Judy Leigh A Year of Mr Maybes is a book by Judy Leigh, an author whose several books I have read so far. This book is very different from other books by Leigh I have read because it centres on a woman who has recently divorced and is starting a new life in her…
Author: Kate Galley The Last Laugh Club is a book about a group of former colleagues who go on a quest to fulfil a wish of their deceased friend and scatter his ashes in the most northern part of the UK, Shetland in Scotland. The colleagues did not always get along when they worked together,…
Author: Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers is a fascinating book about love, grief, loss, and memory. The book shows how one tragic event can shape the lives of the whole family and how lives can fall apart with just one senseless act of selfishness. In this case, a little girl, Ruthie, is kidnapped from her…
Authors: Kevin Dutton and Andy McNab The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success: How to Use Your Inner Psychopath to Get the Most Out of Life is a manual that basically teaches people how to dig into their psychopathic traits to improve their lives. The starting point is that nobody is purely good or purely bad,…
Author: Alyxandra Harvey The Secret Witch is book 1 in The Witches of London Trilogy. There are two more books, which I aim to read. This first one, The Secret Witch, was a bit confusing to start with, but once I got into the story, I thought it was very compelling. Emma is part of…
Author: Judy Leigh The Silver Ladies Seize the Day is the second book in a new book series by Judy Leigh. The first one was The Silver Ladies Do Lunch, which is the best book by Leigh I have read so far. This series of two books is also the best of what I’ve read…
Author: Judy Leigh The Silver Ladies Do Lunch is a book by Judy Leigh, and the first one in the series of two so far. I am really pleased that Leigh also has books where stories continue, such as this one, and previously also Five French Hens and The Silver-Haired Sisterhood. The Silver Ladies Do…
Author: Judy Leigh The Silver-Haired Sisterhood is a book by Judy Leigh, and a second one in the series (which I hope will continue). In the first book, Five French Hens, we met a group of women who met at an aqua aerobics class: Rose, Jen, Pam, Della, and Tess. Jen was meant to get…
Author: Judy Leigh I read another book by Judy Leigh, the doyenne of the ‘it’s never too late’ book genre. Leigh once again created a compelling story of senior women enjoying life and realising it is never too late to start new things and change their lives. Like with her other books I read (The…
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Love is the second book by Elizabeth von Arnim that I read. I previously read The Enchanted April, which I enjoyed enormously, so much that I recommended another book of hers for my US book club (the author was introduced to me by a member of my UK book club). In…
Author: Lauren Weisberger Everyone Worth Knowing is a novel by the author of The Devil Wears Prada. Similar to The Devil Wears Prada, the author of Everyone Worth Knowing also focuses on workplace culture and work relations. This is also why I liked these books; they vividly portray office culture and office relations, a large…
Author: Yanis Varoufakis Yanis Varoufakis, an author of a bestseller, Adults in the Room (which I did not read), wrote a book interestingly called, Talking to my daughter about the economy: A brief history of capitalism. The book is written in a personal way, and as a long letter from the author to his daughter…
Author: Elif Batuman The Idiot is a book that is not easy to describe. It tackles coming of age in a college setting at Harvard University and ethnic minorities trying to navigate friendship, love, and relationships, and a new life as adults. I initially enjoyed the book because of the story from the Russian class,…
Author: Grace Mirabella (with Judith Warner) In and Out of Vogue is an autobiography by Grace Mirabella, a legendary editor-in-chief of American Vogue. Mirabella succeeded Diana Vreeland, another big figure in American fashion journalism. Vreeland edited Vogue from 1963 to 1971, and Mirabella was the editor from 1971 to 1988, when Anna Wintour took over…
Author: Jerry Oppenheimer Front Row – Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue’s Editor in Chief is an unauthorized biography of legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Oppenheimer wrote Front Row by interviewing many different people who knew Wintour, including former colleagues, childhood friends, acquaintances and boyfriends, and partners. The book is very…