A Boy and a House

Title: ‘Deček in Hiša / A Boy and a House’ Writer: Maja Kastelic Publishing House: Annick Press Date of Publication: September 11th 2018 (first published January 7th 2015) Rating: 5 stars I’ve always believed that visiting a gallery and looking at the works of Art is a unique experience. I find it almost transcendental. From well-known masterpieces to contemporary abstract creations,…

The Little Snake

Title: The Little Snake Writer: A. L. Kennedy Publishing House: Canongate Books Date of Publication: 16th November 2018 Rating: 5 stars ”Nevertheless, the people in charge of the city were not overly fond of people and so some of the apartments in which the very many different kinds of people lived were often dry when they should have been wet, or wet…

The Light Between Us

Title: The Light Between Us Writer: Katie Khan Publishing House: Penguin Random House UK Date of Publication: August 9th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’The planets were moving towards each other in the night sky when Isaac and Thea first met.’’ Yes, this is a wonderful combination of meaningful science-fiction and a charming relationship between two bright scholars. Yes, I enjoyed…

Summer: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

Title: Summer: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons Writer: Melissa Harrison (editor) Publishing House: Elliott & Thompson Day of Publication: May 19th 2016 Rating: 5 stars ‘’If spring is all about looking forward, and autumn about looking back, summer surely is the present moment: a long, hot now that marks the sultry climax of the year. {…} it is a…

Everything Under

Title: Everything Under Writer: Daisy Johnson Publishing House: Penguin Random House UK Date of Publication: July 12th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’The places we are born come back.’’ Sometimes, when we have the chance to read the debut work of certain writers, we know that they are destined for great things from the very first pages. Lately, this has happened…

The Gloaming

Title: The Gloaming Writer: Kirsty Logan Publishing House: Penguin Random House UK Date of Publication: April 19th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Ahead of her was only this: dozens of bodies turned to stone, and then the edge of the cliff. The glimmer of rocks. The lure and chew of the waves.’’ When I read Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child, I…

Selling Dead People’s Things

Title: Selling Dead People’s Things Writer: Duane Scott Cerny Publishing House: Thunderground Press Date of Publication: May 25th 2018 Rating: 4 stars ‘’{…} imagine the business of vintage as the opposite of an enormous, heaven-wide window – a window that has no secrets, no filter. A portal through which everything can pass: life or death, normal or paranormal, objects or…

A Murder Is Announced

  Title: A Murder Is Announced Writer: Agatha Christie Publishing House: HarperCollins Date of Publication: 2002 (first published June 1950) Rating: 5 stars ‘’People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous.’’ An idyllic village in the English countryside is waking up, its quirky residents about to start their day with their favourite newspaper, where an invitation to murder…

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Writer: Gabriel García Márquez Publishing House: Penguin Date of Publication: March 6th 2014  (first published 1981) Rating: 5 stars ‘’There had never been a death more foretold.’’ Santiago is murdered in the market of a Colombian town. The perpetrators are two brothers. His crime? The supposed defilement of their sister, whose marriage to a…

Night Beast

Title: Night Beast Writer: Ruth Joffre Publishing House: Grove Atlantic Date of Publication: 08 May 2018 Rating: 3 stars ‘’Εven if you do reject your timer, it’s going to count down anyway.’’ This collection has long been on my list but life and other books got in the way. After having read Her Body and Other Parties, I thought Night…

Achilles

Title: Achilles Writer: Elizabeth Cook Publishing House: Picador Date of Publication: February 9th 2002 Rating: 5 stars ”We honoured you like a god while you were alive. No one could match you. Now that you’re dead we still speak of you as one who will never be surpassed.” Achilles. A name loaded with myths and History, a man who became…

Of Love and Other Demons

Title: Of Love and Other Demons Writer: Gabriel García Márquez Publishing House: Penguin House Date of Publication: May 1st 2008  (first published 1994) Rating: 5 stars ‘’Ideas do not belong to anyone {…} They fly around up there like the angels.’’ Neither Colombia nor Gabriel García Márquez need any lengthy introduction. One of the most fascinating countries of our planet,…

Bitter Orange

Title: Bitter Orange Writer: Claire Fuller Publishing House: Penguin Random UK Date of Publication: August 2nd 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Do our actions betray our nature?’’ The setting: a dilapidated mansion in the idyllic English countryside. The era: 1969, the most exciting time to be alive in recent History. The time when conventions and traditions are shuttered to make room…

I Am, I Am, I Am

Title: I Am, I Am, I Am Writer: Maggie O’Farrell Publishing House: Tinder Press Date of Publication:  August 22nd 2017 Rating: 5 stars ‘’There is nothing unique or special in a near-death experience. They are not rare; everyone, I would venture, has had them, at one time or another, perhaps without even realizing it.’’ How difficult it is to write…