No 418 Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne
Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre (translated by the brilliant Frank Wynne) was my first experience with this celebrated French crime writer but it won’t be my last as Blood Wedding, a tale of obsession and revenge, is one of the best crime novels I’ve read in a long time, thanks to a thrilling plot and…
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No 419 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Motherless Brooklyn was my first encounter with Letham – who I know is considered a bit of a wunderkind of American literature – and I doubt it will be my last as I very much enjoyed this riff on a classic hard-boiled detective novel. The book opens as these genre pieces are wont to do,…
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No 420 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Like most of you I’m sure, I read different books for different reasons. Sometimes I read to be challenged, other times comforted. I like books that educate, books that question and books that move me. Often I will admire a book rather than liking it. And then there is a book like Rules of Civility…
