Undoubtedly one of the best overlooked novels that should be read by everyone, ‘O Caledonia’ is republished today by W&N in their ESSENTIALS collection. It gave me such joy to read it, every page filled with emotion and colour, recognition and admiration, that I want to give a copy to every bookish person I know, and […]
What to read on the experience of self-isolating
Ladies, this is your day. Where I’m from (Kazakhstan) 8th of March, International Women’s Day, is a bank holiday, and so it should be everywhere. Flowers, presents, words of appreciation and best gift of all – some ‘me’ time, while men are handling the world for one day
“The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but not human” – Adolf Hitler If you thought comic books were for adolescents only and that serious people read prose which no pictures can seep into, try Maus. You are about to change your mind.
This year Man Booker Prize celebrates its 50 year anniversary of honouring best fiction works published in English. The event will take place on 6-8 July at Southbank Centre, London, but you can start celebrating now by participating in #ManBooker50 challenge: reading as many of the winner works as you can before end of May […]
Vera Brittain was a woman born to fight for what she believed in, and no other time could have been more suitable for her to live on Earth than the first half of the 20th century.
Top 5 books I have read in 2017: (This was really hard to limit to five! I had to be ruthless!)
Here is the story of how I happened to read and re-read a circa 1,000 pages novel this autumn.