Reading and Watching the World: Books, Film and Art
There's a whole world out there! I'm an experienced, UK-based editor and a bit of an aesthetic dilettante. I'm making it my off-duty duty to bring to your attention books, films, artists, music and TV from all over the world. Reviews are SPOILER FREE. New posts every week. See Reviews by country for my reviews from each nation.
#20booksofsummer, book 4 Priestdaddy is an acclaimed memoir by US writer Patricia Lockwood, who is currently on the Women’s Prize shortlist for her first novel, No-one Is Talking About This, and whose tweets come imbued with the aura of legend. This, her first book, was published in 2017, and has a particularly random cover in …
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Gripping, emotionally real tale of sibling responsibility
A work of fictional non-fiction that captivated even this physics-averse reader
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A call for action to curb the ill-use of both people and the natural world in Peru.
A round-up of what I did, read and watched in January 2021
Francis Spufford’s deeply humane new novel “Light Perpetual”
A look ahead at January 2021 … and the year ahead
Biting wit in this short novel about a dysfunctional Latin American family
Entertaining, multi-layered 1970s Latin American tale, set in an Argentinian prison
