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.
This was a very enjoyable coming of age tale from my local library. It’s not a dictionary! Instead it tells the story of 23-year-old Zhuang (or Z), who is sent by her parents to London to study English at a language school for an extended period. In a monthly journal-style format, she describes her linguistic …
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What I did in January and my plans for February
An account of the author’s return to Vienna from exile in the UK at the end of the Second World War
A memoir of life as a disabled woman in a society that remains structurally ableist and sexist
A powerful forgotten classic from 1922
“Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didn’t know we had, shows us their beauty and then throws a handful of salt into them” – Yuri Herrera
A novel following the lives of two women through Estonia’s fractured 20th century history
A fictionalized account of the establishment of a legendary bookshop in Algiers
A Finnish novel I picked up serendipitously as I read my way through a library shelf of random fiction, inspired by Phyllis Rose’s The Shelf
Taboo-smashing tale of the extremes of first motherhood
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 