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Book review: All Among the Barley, Melissa Harrison

All Among the Barley isn’t quite the story you expect. Melissa Harrison’s book is indeed a coming-of-age story set in[…]

An 84-year-old Irish man might seem an unlikely lead character for a book. But When All Is Said, by debut[…]

Matrix is one of those books that makes me happy to be in a book club. It’s unlikely I’d have[…]

French Braid is probably the 10th Anne Tyler book I’ve read and the American bestselling author never disappoints. Her stories[…]

I spotted Lost in Ibiza in the Hay Festival bookshop not long after booking a winter sun trip to the[…]

When you hear a book is about a young man meeting an older woman, you imagine a classic coming-of-age, sexual[…]

Reading my latest book club selection, the 19th century classic The Diary of a Nobody, I couldn’t help but reflect[…]