Review: ‘Muslim Girl’ – Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 2016
My rating: 4 of 5 stars A timely memoir, reflecting on growing up post-9/11 in the intersection of gender and religion in the US. Amani reflects on her childhoo...
Review: ‘The Good Immigrant’ – Nikesh Shukla 2016
My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The shade of your skin is not the whole content of you and your work. The shade of your skin should not be the measure of your worth.”-...
Review: ‘Iron Cast’ – Destiny Soria 2016
My rating: 4 of 5 stars A tale of friendship, family and magic in interwar New York. Ada and Corinne are best friends, keeping secrets from the world together a...
Review: ‘Americanah’ – Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I cannot recommend this book highly enough, to everyone who reads. To say that the plot follows high school sweethearts and their paths ...
Review: ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ – Patrick Ness 2008
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Overall I loved this book! Patrick Ness has crafted an interesting science fiction world; on a distant planet a young boy lives in an is...
Review: ‘The Marvels’ – Brian Selznick 2015
My rating: 5 of 5 stars A moving and magical tale that seamlessly blends illustration and text. A story about family, identity, history and myth-making. The Mar...
Review: ‘Everything I Never Told You’ – Celeste Ng 2014
3.5 stars. A layered novel about all the secret lives families lead when they can’t or won’t communicate. The story focuses on a Chinese-American fa...
Review: ‘The City of Woven Streets’ – Emmi Itäranta 2015
My rating: 5 of 5 stars An enchanting tale of love and resistance. Unexpectedly tender and heartfelt, the story swept me away. Itaranta has crafted a world of i...
Review: ‘The Magician of Lublin’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer 1959
My rating: 4 of 5 stars A cautionary tale about the dangers of believing yourself to be beyond reproach. The Magician of Lublin is an interesting blend of timel...
Review: ‘Snow Blind’ – Ragnar Jónasson 2010
My rating: 4 of 5 stars A claustrophobic ‘closed room’ murder mystery set in the far North of Iceland permeated with feelings of loneliness and isolation. First...