Guest blog by Simon John Hillman I have always been a voracious reader. My Mum taught me to read before I went to school, and it is a passion I…
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Why do we read books? Some read for knowledge, some for entertainment, some just to kill the time. Still, others read books in the hope that they will find in…
The back cover of Jacaranda Blues informs the reader that the 84-page novella by Bangladeshi writer Mehreen Ahmed is about “our society’s ultimate failure to resolve class, psychological and emotional…
I don’t think there is a man out there who hasn’t toyed, at least once in his lifetime, with the idea of shooting a gun. I, myself, had an enduring…
“We all want things we can’t have.” (John Fowles, The Collector) John Fowles is a well-known British author (1926 – 2005) who has dedicated his life to the world of…
The Safety of Objects (1990) by American writer A.M. Homes is a collection of short stories that I really enjoyed. I have been reading quite a few short stories lately,…
At the beginning of this year I was planning to review every book that I read in 2011, but I now realize that this is impossible. The reason is that…
Thailand-based Erich R. Sysak’s first published novel is Dog Catcher, which, in the words of Philip Tatham, is “a very exciting gritty urban noir fiction.” Set in the backdrop of…
Until Cujo, I have never read anything written by Stephen King. Of course that I’ve heard and read stuff about him, but I’ve never actually got down to reading any…
Although I am fascinated by (quality) young adult literature, such as Robert Cormier’s books, I’m not into children’s books that much. Basically, I get to read them out of necessity,…
