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Having read Jo Bloom’s Permission which explores very similar territory not so long ago, I was in two minds about reading Sophie Berrebi’s The Sharing Economy which sees woman pushing the boundaries of her open marriage but there was mention of art and Amsterdam in the blurb then another blogger spurred me on. Set in […]
The Sharing Economy by Sophie Berrebi: ’Unlimited access to the cookie jar’ Read More »
What attracted me to Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s prize-winning novel was its structure. It’s the story of a young man who dies one April afternoon in Stockholm, his car wrecked in a crash which some speculate may have been suicide, others are sure was an accident. Khemiri tells Samuel’s story through a series of interviews with
I think I would have done better to have saved Virginia Reeves’ powerful debut for another time. I read it while flu-ridden and alone for a couple of days, unable to get out there and find some company. All of which is by way of saying that this is not the cheeriest of novels. It
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves: Paying for your crimes Read More »
Back to Moscow came all wrapped up in orange ribbon along with a couple of other titles, one of which I had my eye on already thanks to Twitter. You won’t be surprised to hear that it’s set in Moscow, back at the beginning of the century when the city was stuffed full of expats
Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades: The story of a 21st-century superfluous man Read More »