The human heart is made of the words we put in it”. These are the poignant words uttered at the most pivotal of moments in the new novel by Susan Abulhawa. The Blue Between Sky and Water is a courageous new book which tells a complex tale of varied perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in […]
“Music may be immortal, but composers, alas, are not. They are easily silenced, and even more easily killed.” Following the great success of his 2011 novel, The Sense of an Ending, there has been much anticipation surrounding the wait for Julian Barnes’s next effort. In a different approach to his previous novel, The Noise of […]
“However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that – from time to time – you feel life’s sweet caress.” This fragment from Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau‘s avis de passage is how William Boyd’s latest novel comes to be framed, both in its abstraction and its […]
My Salinger Year is an understated yet spellbinding novel set in New York over 1996. It describes the year in which a young woman spent working at a literary agency that represented J.D. Salinger. The poignant memoir plays out by aligning itself with the experiences of a young drop-out grad student named Joanna Rakoff, who […]