There aren’t many books where a tree is one of the main protagonists. Normally, I’d find that kind of anthropomorphising a bit childish, but this is no Whomping Willow. The fig tree speaks mostly as a genuine actor in the story. Occasionally she dips into being a contrivance, but I didn’t mind those parts too… Continue reading The Island Of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
I think that Murakami is an acquired taste. If you like surreal; if you like David Lynch movies; if you like Kafkaesque craziness, then you may like this. I’ve read a couple of his fiction books before: Norwegian Wood and 1Q84, and I remember the second one in particular being very strange indeed. It begins… Continue reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
For one of my pieces of coursework I was trying to find examples of travel writing when Anne handed me this book. And then I started underlining passages within it before she told me she’d borrowed it from a friend. Oops, sorry! A slightly bent cover - sorry about that too I was going to… Continue reading The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
War Lord – Bernard Cornwell
We were given this book by a friend because of where we live. The Wirral is a little nub of land that sticks out of the country on the west and lies between two rivers, the Dee and the Mersey, which merge into the Irish Sea. It’s a tiny strip in the scheme of things,… Continue reading War Lord – Bernard Cornwell
The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
The front cover of the paperback Having said I’m not into the Crime novel genre, I appear to have read two of them back to back! But you see, when the main protagonist has the surname of Mistry (as my surname is) I felt a personal obligation. As an aside, this isn’t always the case.… Continue reading The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
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