Ian’s Read & Recommended
If you are looking for an idea for your 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, as swell as some other reviews.
Click here for Ian’s Book of each Year.
“Orbital” by Samantha Harvey
Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize... This novella, just 136 pages long, is far removed from Samantha Harvey's earlier much praised novels but in it's own right has been very...
“North Woods” by Daniel Mason
This is an unusual inventive novel focusing on a settler's homestead, located in the North Woods of New England and the countryside, woodland and apple orchard that surround it. However,...
“The Heart in Winter” : By Kevin Barry
Set in Montana in 1893, in a frontier town called Butte, this unusal novel is best described as an Irish Western! A strong contingent of Irish miners have settled there,...
“Brotherless Night” : by V.V. Ganeshananthan
I am glad I read this book, which won the Womens Prize for Fiction 2024; a worthy winner having read at least two others on the shortlist. It was achieving...
“The Road to the Country” – by Chigozie Obioma
This is a novel set in and experiencing the Biafran War fought in Nigeria between 1967-1970. Whilst reading it I was reminded of "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda...
“Kala” by Colin Walsh
The West coast of Ireland in 2018 is the setting but the focus of the story are the events surrounding a group of six teenage schoolfriends in the summer of...
