- The header picture is a shot I took looking out onto Chesterman Beach, Tofino on Vancouver Island ... the place I would most like to be looking out at whilst reading books.
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Latest Reviews
Read them in full on my Reviews Blog
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca
In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta Ahmed
Currently Reading
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Beowulf (Norton Critical Edition) translated by Seamus Heaney
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewiecz
The Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski




