Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More
I'm a UK-based editor for a major publisher. I'm making it my off-duty duty to experience FIVE books, FIVE films, art, TV, music and food from every country in the world (where feasible). See drop down menus for my progress.
In late November last year I went to London’s BFI to watch a 2024 movie, Katanga: Dance of the Scorpions, shot in Burkina Faso, and directed by Dani Kouyaté. The coup-beleaguered, West African state of Burkina Faso might seems an unlikely hub for the film industry, but for many years it has hosted the Panafrican …
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Classic surreal tale of a clerk navigating a sinister bureaucracy
A Booker-nominated novel by an Albanian writer
My TBR for January 2026
Autobiographical novel by Martin Amis
Recently Booker-longlisted experimental novel of acting and identity
A crime thriller that also becomes a meditation on the post-communist history of Croatia
Unapologetic and raw short account of the fall-out from the break up of a relationship
A gripping memoir of living through the first Liberian civil conflict, and flight to the USA
A three-part novel, exploring a young Gambian woman’s alternative lives, depending on a youthful choice of bed-partner
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 