When Breath Becomes Air ~ Paul Kalanithi

This is a very sad book, but one well worth reading.

Snowpiercer

Bong Joon Ho (dir.), Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt

My Life in Books

A kind of autobiography of how I became an avid reader and book-collector.

Europe in Autumn; Europe at Midnight; Europe in Winter ~ Dave Hutchinson

Perfection

Albert Camus’ novel The Plague is one of my favourite books, despite its often depressing subject matter: an outbreak of bubonic plague in…

Every Book I Read in 2016

Here is every book I read last year, in order. Thirty-six books, well short of the target of 50 I had set myself. I hope to do better in 2017.

The Sense of an Ending ~ Julian Barnes

This is a wistful book about the fallibility and mutability of memory. The very first words in the novel are “I remember”, and throughout the book we are brought to consider the untrustworthiness of our recollections. “What you end up remembering isn’t always…

The Best Offer (La migliore offerta)

Geoffrey Rush, Sylvia Hoeks, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland

No Name ~ Wilkie Collins

I’ve long been a fan of the novels of the Victorian writer Wilkie Collins, a younger contemporary of Charles…