I have two reading modes. On holidays I read slowly, savouring every word, immersed in the story, and spending luxurious hours pondering...

Upon the death of his father from cancer, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is released from a juvenile work farm in Kansas and returns home to...

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The Cost of Living is a generous memoir about not very much at all. It’s not that the events Deborah Levy chronicles – the end of a...

ll the ingredients of our current malaise are whipped into a bitter concoction in this cynical pre-apocalyptic novel. In Noah Hawley’s...

Emily St. John Mandel had already brought thoughtfulness to the pandemic novel with Station Eleven. With Sea of Tranquility, she infuses...