Ian’s Read & Recommended

9781529339253 Memphis Stringfellow

“Memphis” by Tara M Stringfellow

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and was glad that I was prompted/reminded about it when it was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2023. Memphis as a...

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9781529074529 Trust Diaz

“Trust” by Hernan Diaz

This is an ambitious novel which the author carries off with success. A story divided into four sections, each following on from the earlier, consecutive but interlinked. A deep engrossing...

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9781408710128 Horse Brooks

“Horse” by Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is one of those American writers that does not seem to have become established on this side of the Atlantic in any comparable way to her US standing,...

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9781526644480 Hungry Ghosts Hosein

“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....

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9781788169738 Geometer Duncan

“The Geometer Lobachevsky” by Adrian Duncan

Adrian Duncan is a new discovery for me. The unusual title of this book made it stand out from the mass of new books I see each week and the...

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9781911590804 Service Gilmartin

“Service” by Sarah Gilmartin

It is not often when finishing an author's second novel I close it and think that is as good as the first, but Sarah Gilman has succeeded. Her first book,...

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