History Keeps Me Awake at Night Archives

Cover image for Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

Paperbacks to Look Out For in February 2024: Part Two

29 January 2024 / 21 Comments

The second batch of February’s paperback treats begins with one of my books of 2023. Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time follows a recently retired police officer whose ex-boss has been told to reopen a cold case which involved two priests, both child sex abusers, one of whom had been brutally murdered while the other was […]

Paperbacks to Look Out For in February 2024: Part Two Read More »

Books to Look Out For in February 2023: Part One

I’ve read two from February’s first instalment of new fiction, both of which deal with families hit by tragedy in very different ways. Laurent Petitmangin’s What You Need from the Night sees an unnamed father, left to bring up his two sons alone after their mother’s death, finding a chasm opening between him and his