A Common Reader is . . .

. . . 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.


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Review: Cliffs – Olivier Adam

Anyone reading the reviews on this blog will realise that I rarely give bad reviews of books. I simply don’t have enough time to read poor  books and have even less time to review them.  However, I have decided to make an exception in this case because apparently the book is highly regarded.  And in [...]

Review: Beautiful Image – Marcel Aymé

Beautiful Image has been published by Pushkin Press in collaboration with the French Embassy in London who promote translations into English of notable French books (see French Book News).  Marcel Aymé is little known in Britain despite his ironic and insightful body of work emerging from the 1930s and 40s and including the period [...]