Book Review | Labels and Other Stories | Louis de Bernières

  Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of…

Book Review | Breath of Fresh Air | Erica James

  Breath of Fresh Air by Erica James Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of her…

Book Review | Shuter Murgh Riasat | Mustansar Hussain Tarar

Book Review   Shuter Murgh Riasat / شترمرغ ریاست by Mustansar Hussain Tarar A collection of 39 short stories About Author Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Urdu: مستنصر حسين تارڑ) is a Pakistani author, actor, the first Morning Show presenter and a pioneer trekker – in his own words: a vagabond. For more details, read his Goodreads…

Book Review | The House That Spoke | Zuni Chopra

  The House That Spoke | Zuni Chopra Fourteen-year-old Zoon Razdan is witty, intelligent and deeply perceptive. She also has a deep connection with magic. She was born into it. The house that she lives in is fantastical—life thrums through its wooden walls—and she can talk to everything in it, from the armchair and the…

Book Review | Never Greener | Ruth Jones

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she’d never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on…

Book Review | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll On a drowsy afternoon by a riverbank, a young and distracted Alice follows a rabbit into a fantastical underground world that grows curiouser and curiouser. Dared, insulted, amused, and threatened by a succession of anthropomorphic creatures, the indomitable Alice falls deeper into a swirl of the imagination…