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Tag: Classics

Review: An Episode Of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

A novel about gardening that is also what it takes to rebuild.

1940s, British, Classics, UK, World War II

Review: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

An intriguing fantasy drawing on forest myths that is burdened by an unfortunate attitude to women.

British, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, UK

Review: The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Light Years is the perfect novel for a society sleep-walking towards disaster.

1930s, Classics, England, Fiction, Historical, World War II

Review: The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James

A novel that does what it says, painting a portrait of an ambitious and charming young woman as she seeks to experience all life has to offer.

America, Classics, England, Henry James, Italy

The best books I’ve read 2020

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.

Argentina, Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Nonfiction, Novel

Review: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

A dreamy, mirage-like novel where things change shape before your eyes.

1920s, British, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.

Classics, Climate change, Frankenstein, Novel, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, Switzerland

Review: Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

A short and brutal dissection of societal sickness.

Classics, Dostoevsky, Novel, Russia, Translation

Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A story of love and war in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half Of A Yellow Sun reaches outwards through history.

Classics, Fiction, Historical, Nigeria, Novel

Review: A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

A strange, meditative and watery novel.

Classics, Fantasy

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