• The Order of the Day Eric Vuillard
    23 February 2022

    Truth is scattered into many kinds of du...

    Written with devastating and biting honesty, the brevity and precision of this French ‘récit’, which is filled with moments of irony, far...
  • The Inspeparables Simone de Beauvoir
    16 September 2021

    The Inseparables

    With unsurprising spoiler Censored in its day, the coming-of-age novella by France’s most significant 20th century feminist, Simone de Beauvoir, now...
  • The Forgiven Lawrence Osborne
    22 May 2021

    The Forgiven: not easily forgotten

    The short subtitle to this novel could be, ‘Drunken British man kills Moroccan roadside thief’. That would not do justice to either the re...
  • 29 January 2021

    To say nothing of the dog

    Three Men in a Boat is funny and self-deprecating. I’ve owned the book for decades but I was inspired to listen this time after hearing it quote...
  • 23 October 2020

    The importance of being slender

    The importance of being ‘slender’ in 1940s Britain isn’t truly revealed until disaster strikes near the end of this novella, set bet...
The Order of the Day Eric Vuillard

Truth is scattered into many kinds of dust

Written with devastating and biting honesty, the brevity and precision of this French ‘récit’, which is filled with moments of irony, farce and anecdote against the backdrop of the Third…

The Inspeparables Simone de Beauvoir

The Inseparables

With unsurprising spoiler Censored in its day, the coming-of-age novella by France’s most significant 20th century feminist, Simone de Beauvoir, now has an introduction by the 21st century’s foremost feminist,…

The Forgiven Lawrence Osborne

The Forgiven: not easily forgotten

The short subtitle to this novel could be, ‘Drunken British man kills Moroccan roadside thief’. That would not do justice to either the readability or the complexity of this thought-provoking…

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