I’m not sure if this is the right title for this post and this selection of books – but if you read them you’ll know what I mean! All the books in the collection below have a similar feeling to them, whether that’s in their characters, themes, or settings – and they’re all bloody goodContinue reading “If you’re interested in dysfunctional fathers and dystopias”
Category Archives: Literary Fiction
If you’d like to walk out of your life…
The selection of books I’ve chosen for this post include some of my absolute favourite books of all time. There is a central idea to all of them – an escapism that I really love to read about. The Salt Path – Raynor Winn (non-fiction) What’s it about? In a single week Raynor Winn andContinue reading “If you’d like to walk out of your life…”
If you like Stacey Halls’ The Familiars…
The Familiars is set in northern England in 1612. Heroine Fleetwood Shuttleworth is pregnant and frightened after suffering several miscarriages and desperate to provide her restless husband an heir. In her desperation she reaches out to a midwife, Alice, to help her bring the baby to term. Both are then swept up in the witchContinue reading “If you like Stacey Halls’ The Familiars…”
If you like Ali Smith’s How To Be Both…
How to Be Both is a bold, intelligent and moving story (or stories). Narrated by Francesco del Cossa, an artist from the fourteen hundreds, and George a girl in the modern day who has just lost her mother. The novel consists of two parts, both numbered One; half the copies are printed with George’s portion of the narrative first.
If you like Greek mythology…
In recent years there has been a plethora of brilliant books that use the mythology, and as it’s (one of) my favourite subjects, I decided the inaugural post on Secondary Reading would be on the Greek myths.
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