Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Bernadine Evaristo purposefully takes her reader on a journey and I trusted her from the opening sentence.
The New Ships by Kate Duignan
A finely crafted novel that traverses the territory of love and loss, broken family ties, and political upheaval
The Man Who Would Not See by Rajorshi Chakraborti
I wanted to know more about this man; what it was he wouldn’t see, and who it was that wanted him to see things their way.
The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi
A book which has me dreaming of time travel.
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
Jaxie’s story is urgent, desperate, opinionated and it gripped me from the get go.
The Last Days of the Incas: my book of the month.
“They, the conquistadors, collided with an Inca empire ten million strong, smashing into it like a giant meteor.” Kim MacQuarrie.
![By Lin Kristensen from New Jersey, USA (Timeless Books) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jillscene.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/timeless_books3.jpg?w=300&h=200&crop=1)
My book of the month: The Lady in The Van
I get re-acquainted with an old favourite and find there’s much to laugh at and with.
![By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA (Woman reading, 1930sUploaded by jmabel) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jillscene.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/woman_reading_1930s.jpg?w=300&h=200&crop=1)
Reading Ferrante
I develop Ferrante fever and I’m happy about that.
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