37) Ghachar, Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag I can't for the life of me remember where I heard about this wonderful, short book by the Indian author Vivek Shanbhag, brilliantly translated by Srinath Perur - but it got added to the wishlist a while back, and then spotted in the local Oxfam bookshop. It is one… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 37: Ghachar, Ghochar
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Year 3 / Book 36: Transit
36) Transit by Rachel Cusk This was recommended to me by a friend who is also a writer (shout out to Chris), and I spotted it in a charity bookshop nearby, so here we are. Brilliantly, I now realise that I've started with the second book in a trilogy - the first being Outline and… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 36: Transit
Year 3 / Book 35: The Intrusions
35) The Intrusions by Stav Sherez Towards the end of last year, I discovered Stav Sherez's Carrigan and Miller series, and ended up reading the first two in the series, A Dark Redemption and Eleven Days which I thoroughly enjoyed. I've been saving up the third instalment, The Intrusions as a summer holiday treat, and I'm delighted… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 35: The Intrusions
Year 3 / Book 34: Sins As Scarlet
34) Sins As Scarlet by Nicolas Obregon I much enjoyed Obregon's debut Blue Light Yokahama and at the end of that review, I said "keep an eye out for Obregon's next novel". And here we are with Sins As Scarlet, which brings the same lead protagonist-detective, Kosuke Iwata, but is set in Los Angeles rather… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 34: Sins As Scarlet
Year 3 / Book 33: A Quiet Flame
33) A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr I'm slowly working my way through Philip Kerr's wonderful Bernie Gunther novels, which combine a Chandler-esque wit with the perils and history of 1930s-40s (Nazi) Germany. As I wrote in a previous review, Kerr very sadly died earlier this year, which is all the more reason (as far… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 33: A Quiet Flame
Year 3 / Book 32: Involuntary Witness
32) Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio Generally, whenever we travel to a particular place, I like to try and read a novel that is set in and around there. This killed two birds with one stone, as Carofiglio had been on my radar for a while - and this legal / crime thriller is set… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 32: Involuntary Witness
Year 3 / Book 31: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting & Fishing
31) The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank I will be honest with you reader, normally I wouldn't go near a book with this title, particularly when it is coupled with a chick-lit-ish cover: in short, it looks from the outside like it is specifically designed to not make me read it.… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 31: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting & Fishing
Year 3 / Book 30: Out of Bounds
30) Out of Bounds by Val McDermid There are few better crime writers around than Val McDermid, and this is solidly in the top middle of her novels that I've read. Normally that wouldn't be much of a recommendation, but in her case that just means 'pretty bloody good'. In this story, Karen Pirie is… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 30: Out of Bounds
Year 3 / Book 29: The Adversary
29) The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere This is a curious and affecting short book, which opens with a powerful hook and never really lets go. It's about a man, Jean-Claude Romand, who has lived his life (as the subtitle has it) as a 'monstrous deception'. A deception that unravels as this book opens - his… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 29: The Adversary
Year 3 / Book 28: Evicted
28) Evicted by Matthew Desmond Bit of a backlog on updating the reviews, but thought I would get this one in first. It's a painstaking and detailed book about America's housing crisis and its role in he widening inequality in that country. It is, by turns, enlightening and insightful but also bleak, unremitting and depressing.… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 28: Evicted
Dog-eared Man: a book a week 