Ian’s Read & Recommended
If you are looking for an idea for you next book – maybe an author you haven’t discovered or read before, here are some titles that I have enjoyed.
These recommendations are mainly taken from contributions we have made to Tewkesbury Direct,
and some other reviews.
Click here for Ian’s Book of each Year.
“The Wren, The Wren” by Anne Enright
Anne Enright once again entertains her readership with her new novel. The story of mother, Carmel and her daughter Nell; their lives unfold - the ups and downs of single...
“How to Build a Boat” by Elaine Feeney
Elaine Feeney, as a novelist was a new author for me even if this book is not her; it is so easy to miss some really good writers. She is...
“Kairos” by Jenny Erpenbeck
This is an unusual story, not so much in the "love story" which is the essence of the novel but in the background against which the affair between Hans and...
“Cahokia Jazz” by Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford here offers his readers an immersive story. He is best known for his first novel "Golden Hill" but has a distinguished career as a writer of non-fiction. Cahokia...
“Hungry Ghosts” by Kevin Jared Hosein
Rural Trinidad in 1941. A group of families live together but apart in a "barracks" which leaks. There is no privacy but that is the life they know and share....
“The World and All That It Holds” by Aleksandar Hemon
This book follows the life of Rafael Pinto, a Serbian Jew and a pharmacist, he is also an opium addict. In some respects it reminded me of some of William...
