Ian’s Read & Recommended
If you are looking for an idea of what to read, maybe an author you haven’t discovered or read before, here are some books 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 Four Winds” By Kristin Hannah
This is a very unusual story set in Texas in 1934, with events leading through to California in 1936; times of great hardship in America, the Great Depression, and in...
“The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This first novel, but by an acclaimed writer of non-fiction, is all about the American underground. The system where the enslaved sought freedom in the North escaping the cruelty and...
“Stand by Me” by Wendell Berry
This is a book of short stories based in Kentucky, but please do not be put off by that with the idea that you might not like the shorter form...
“A Thousand Moons” by Sebastian Barry
For those of our readers who enjoyed Sebastian Barry's "Days without End" this will be a very obvious choice as many of the main characters are the same from that...
“The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett
It is always a pleasure to pick up a new novel by Ann Patchett, who I saw referred to in some article as a possible successor to Anne Tyler, and that...
“American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins
I think I should begin this review of what is a most interesting read about the Mexican immigration issue into the States by identifying that certainly at the beginning it is...