Ian’s Read & Recommended
“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...
“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...
“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,...
“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 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...
“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,...