Category: Recommendations

I do enjoy looking at the many prize lists coming out at the moment. We have had three interesting longlists recently:  the Carnegie Medal for children’s books, the International Booker Prize, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Most Enjoyable Romance Sometimes romance novels can seem to focus on the same …

Very few paperbacks are published in the final months of the year, and I am delighted to see that more are coming out now that we are into January.  I am also pleased to be able to say that I thoroughly enjoyed some books that I read in December. Most …

The Nero book awards don’t seem to attract as much attention as I would expect, but if you are looking for some more ideas for yourself or presents for others, their various shortlists may be helpful (https://nerobookawards.com/2025-shortlist/). Most Enjoyable Fantasy Novel  I loved Eva St John’s Flint in the Bones. …

This is a somewhat unusual selection as generally the books which I most enjoyed reading in October were reprints. I am very grateful that so many good and enjoyable books from the past are now available, and that many publishers continue to reprint them. Most Entertaining British Classic Crime Reprint …

There are lots of good books coming out at the moment,  but if you are very busy and looking for a shorter read you could look at Novellas in November. This is coming up soon with one of the hosts being the blogger Bookish Beck (https://bookishbeck.com). Most Entertaining Fantasy Novel …

The books I enjoyed most in August vary in their seriousness or light-heartedness, but they are all the same in one way. They all show protagonists finding that life has more opportunities than they might previously have supposed. Favourite Book from the Booker Longlist I enjoyed Benjamin Wood’s novella Seascraper …