3) Family Life by Akhil Sharma I picked this up at the local charity shop, I think having read about Akhil Sharma's A Life of Adventure & Delight (which is on the TBR pile) in some well-informed person's recommendations list at some point in the not-too-distant past. So I knew little or nothing opening the… Continue reading Year 4 / Book 3: Family Life
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Year 4 / Book 2: Force of Nature
2) Force of Nature by Jane Harper I very much enjoyed Jane Harper's runaway bestseller The Dry (see my review of that from Year 2) with its tale of small-town murder in a parched, drought-ridden Australia. This follow-up, Force of Nature, finds the same policeman (Aaron Falk) working in the finance department, tracking down money… Continue reading Year 4 / Book 2: Force of Nature
Year 4 / Book 1: October
1) October by China Miéville First book of year 4 of this blog, and we were in St Petersburg for the New Year, so it felt appropriate to read a book about the Russian Revolution. In this case, a rewriting of the momentous events of the year of 1917 by Miéville, a writer best known… Continue reading Year 4 / Book 1: October
Dog-eared Man: a book a week 