Weekend reading: #MegWolitzer

Weekend reading:#HaJin

Weekend reading: #EileenChang

Doesn’t live up to the standard of Trainspotting 5.5/10 #IrvineWelsh #Crime

The style makes reading this heavy going 6/10 #NormanMailer #WhyAreWeinVietnam

Weekend reading: #DenisBarnham

Tongue in cheek - repeats a bit 5/10 #ChelseaHandler #MyHorizontalLife

Evidently #HelenDewitt has a lot to say, but the structure of this book completely lost me 5/10 #TheLastSamurai

Weekend reading: #VasilyGrossman

Brilliant. Urgently needs translating into English 9/10 #AlfredSant #LaBiduLaTmiem

Favourite reads for 2025

Weekend reading: #YuvalNoahHarari

Where to next?! #LonelyPlanet

Weekend reading: #IreneNemirovsky

Enjoyable classic (of the so called hard-boiled genre) - originally banned in some US cities 8/10 #JamesMCain #ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice

I found this somewhat childish 4.5/10 #TaylorJenkinsReid #Atmosphere

Weekend reading: #DorisLessing

Sharp and crisp writing - should be read at one go 8/10 #PaoloCognetti #DownintheValley

Not all medicine is science 7.5/10 #VSNaipaul #TheMysticMasseur

Weekend sci-fi: #JamesSACorey

Was so disappointed when I eventually realized that my childhood hero in #TintinintheCongo was a propaganda attempt to normalize the colonial atrocities committed in the Belgian Congo 2/10 #Herge

#FrancescoZahra: A Late Baroque 18th century artist 8/10 #KeithSciberras

Not #CixinLiu’s best 6.5/10 #TheWanderingEarth

Weekend Reading: #DonDeLillo

The definitive biography of a unique postwar leader 8/10 #MarkMontebello #TheTailthatWaggedtheDog

Had the #IllustratedClassic as a kid - still remember the sense of wonder and excitement #JulesVerne

Weekend reading: #KimStanleyRobinson

Pretty depressing - but than life in the middle of the Great War must have been pretty depressing too 7/10 #PatBarker #TheEyeintheDoor

Light, effortless reading 6/10 #MarkoKloos #LinesofDeparture

Antonio Sciortino’s - Director of the British Academy of Arts in Rome between the wars- grand, yet never realized, project for the Unknown Soldier 7/10 #ConradThake

Weekend reading: #LeoPerutz

#Regeneration: The psychological impact -“shell shock” - of the horror of war 7.5/10 #PatBarker

Forget the book cover art - the book is sensational and spawned a whole series 8/10 #ArthurCClarke #RendezvouswithRama

Harrison Ford makes a fantastic Jack Ryan in the film version 7/10 #TomClancy #ClearandPresentDanger

My favourite #Hemingway 8.5/10 #AFarewelltoArms

Weekend reading: #MorrisWest

Introducing (in 1920) Hercule Poirot 7/10 #AgathaChristie #TheMysteriousAffairatStyles

Naughty but very nice 8/10 #MarioVargasLlosa #AuntJuliaandtheScriptwriter

Weekend reading: #AudreyNiffenegger

#Mauritshuis - just the right size to visit. And has 2 of my favourite paintings: Frans Hals’ Laughing Boy and Fabritius’ Goldfinch

I found the style somewhat lacking in depth 5.5/10 #AmitavGhosh #TheGlassPalace

Oppenheimer meets native America 7/10 #MartinCruzSmith #StallionGate

A must read 8/10 #RichardYates #RevolutionaryRoad

Weekend reading: #PatrickOBrian

In my 20s most of my reading was out of lending libraries - #GrahamGreene was one of the first authors I looked for. 7/10 #TheMinistryofFear

Masterful landscapes by #JosephSammut 7/10 #ViewssndHues

I love this author 8/10 #EdnaOBrien #AugustisaWickedMonth

Weekend reading: #JacobTomsky

Pulp. Not to my taste 5/10 #BearGrylls #BurningAngels

A gem: Political (with a small “p”) intrigue in rural China 8.5/10 #HaJin #InthePond