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. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).
It consists of book reviews and more general articles about reading and currently receives over 10,000 unique visitors each month. So far 290 book reviews have been published. My currently-reading shelf:  This website is archived for posterity in the British Library's UK Web Archive 
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I have been very pleased to read David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide for it is an unusual book which provides a lot of insight into the painful journeys which have to be taken to come to terms with family tragedy. The writer comes to this from many angles, much as a historian reviews a variety of [...] The fact that I have read 11 of Anne Tyler’s 18 novels suggests that I think highly of this fine author. She is one of the few writers whose books I pre-order before publication and then devour, putting everything else aside for a few days, and then finding that for the next two weeks [...] It is always a pleasure to read a new edition from One World Classics, particularly when the title is one I’ve not read before. Black Spring was written between Miller’s more well-known Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn and while it has not gained the stature of the other books, it is well worth [...] Although I’ve heard of Chuck Palahniuk, particularly in the context of his highly successful novel Fight Club, I’d never read anything by him before until being sent Pygmy through the post. At first I was not sure that this was going be my sort of thing, but within a few pages I was hooked. Imagine [...] I came to The Other with mixed feelings as I tend to think of David Guterson as someone who’s suffered from “second novel syndrome” – a brilliant start with Snow Falling on Cedars, followed by a rather mediocre second novel, East of the Montains. His third novel, Our Lady of the Forest, was much [...] Just a short mention today of a recently published book, not particularly literary and not a landmark in any way, but still a book I would had to read as soon as I saw it. Ever since Lake Woebegon Days, I have read every Garrison Keillor book that comes along. It wouldn’t be fair to [...] Marilynne Robinson’s earlier novel Gilead was much admired for its depiction of elderly Congregational minister, John Ames. It has now been followed by Home, which focuses on Jack, the son of Robert Boughton, a retired Presbyterian minister and an old friend of John Ames. As the book opens, we find Robert Boughton’s daughter Glory at [...] |
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