A three-part novel, exploring a young Gambian woman’s alternative lives, depending on a youthful choice of bed-partner
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20 Books of Summer 2025
My 20 books of summer 2025
Book review: Purge by Sofi Oksanen (Finnish book of the month)
A novel following the lives of two women through Estonia’s fractured 20th century history
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna (Finnish book of the month)
Blackly comic novel of escapades involving a disillusioned Helsinki journalist and his adopted hare
We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)
A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Lebanon)
A introspective novel about a woman cloistered in her apartment in Lebanon for 50 years, accompanied only by great works of literature.
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and three other mini book reviews
Three mini reviews of the latest in my 20 books of summer
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Love, trauma and memory in Sierra Leone
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon)
Page-turning novel about the often false promises of the American Dream for an immigrant family from Cameroon and a US family with a senior Lehman Bros executive as breadwinner.
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 