Category: nonfiction

Short Nonfiction Week: Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie for #NovNov22

Stranger Than Fiction for #NonFicNov

Short Nonfiction Week: A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa, translated by Risa Kobayashi & Martin Brown #NovNov22

My Year in Nonfiction #NonFicNov

No 372 The Missing by Andrew O’Hagan: Book 3 of #20booksofsummer22

Andrew O’Hagan’s fascinating debut defies simple classification. Ostensibly, this work of non-fiction is an exploration of missing persons however to call it just that would be to do it a disservice. It is also an autobiography, a piece of social history and a memoir of time spent travelling up and down the UK, in search…

Short Nonfiction Buddy Read: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller #NovNov

Short Nonfiction: Hiroshima by James Hersey #NovNov #NonFicNov

Originally published as a 30,000 word essay in The New Yorker, James Hersey’s Hiroshima had a powerful impact despite the brevity of the work. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in August 1945, decimating the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and killing 100,000 men, woman and children and leaving countless others suffering the…