Book Review: ‘The Traitor’s Niche’ by Ismail Kadare
In The Traitor’s Niche, from Counter Point Press, Albanian author Ismail Kadare has drawn a satirical, and biting, picture of the Ottoman Empire. Albania, like many of the Baltic states, had fallen...
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Book Review: ‘The Winter Sisters’ by Tim Westover
In his novel The Winter Sisters Tim Westover takes an earthy, magical-realist dive into small-town Southern life two centuries ago. Inspired by the real 19th-century pioneers of modern scientific...
View ArticleTen Best Books 2019
‘Tis the time of year when ten best lists start to appear in publications far and wide. So in the spirit of the season , and in no particular order, here are a list of ten books reviewed by me on this...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Sparks Like Stars’ by Nadia Hashimi
Sparks Like Stars, by Nadia Hashimi, published by Harper Collins, pulls the reader behind the curtain of modern history to peak back stage at the impact of war and terror on individual lives. For most...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘A Land Like You’ by Tobie Nathan
In A Land Like You, published by Seagull Books, author Tobie Nathan takes us to an Egypt that will be unfamiliar to most readers. First the book is told mainly from the perspective of Cairo’s Jewish...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘In The Shadow of the Yali’ by Suat Dervis
In The Shadow of the Yali, by Suat Dervis, published by the Other Press, is set in a Turkey making the transition from the rule of the Sultans to its first steps as a Republic. Originally published in...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Lover’ by Laury Silvers
In The Lover (The first book of “The Sufi Mysteries Quartet) Laury Silvers immerses the reader in Medieval Baghdad. While as the title of the series implies this novel is a mystery, a murder mystery...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Jealous’ by Laury Silvers
The Jealous, book two of the “Sufi Mystery Quartet”, by Laury Silvers, returns readers to the streets of circa 900 AD Baghdad. It’s among the dusty streets of the city that Silvers brings both her...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘All The Horses of Iceland’ by Sarah Tolmie
All The Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie, published by Tor books, is not your usual fantasy novel. In fact, its not your typical book period. Tolmie has created a magical tale, told in the style of a...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘All The Seas of the World’ by Guy Gavriel Kay
All The Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay, published by Penguin/Random House, brings readers back into the world he first introduced us to in A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky....
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Flint and Mirror’ by John Crowley
Flint and Mirror In Flint and Mirror John Crowley takes readers back to Elizabethan England. More specifically, we are carried across the Irish Sea to ever-restive and unsettled Catholic Ireland which...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Austral’ by Carlos Fonseca
Austral In his new book, Austral, Carlos Fonseca takes readers down the winding path of memory, history, and language and paints a picture of how the three interweave and interconnect. In a story...
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Book Review: ‘Impossible Histories’ by Hal Johnson from Odd Dot
Impossible Histories Impossible Histories by Hal Johnson, published by Macmillan/Odd Dot, takes history and spins it on its head in unexpected ways. Johnson has already proven himself as a player with...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘No One Prayed Over Their Graves’ by Khaled Khalifa
‘No One Prayed Over Their Graves’ No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa is set in a Syria unrecognizable to modern eyes. At the end of the 19th century, Syria, and the rest of the Arab...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Peace’ by Laury Silvers
Sufi Mystery Series The Peace, the fourth and final book in Larry Silvers’ “The Sufi Mystery Quartet” , returns readers to the streets of 10th century Baghdad. Amid the dust and the noise of the...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Ndima Ndima’ by Tsitsi Mapepa, from Catalyst Press
Ndima Ndima Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa, published by Catalyst Press, shows the human condition. Its story traces the lives of Zuva and her daughter Nyeredzi through the turbulent 1990s in Zimbabwe....
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Book of Everlasting Things’ by Aanchal Malhotra
India & Pakistan In The Book of Everlasting Things Aanchal Malhotra takes readers on a journey into the well of sadness that was created by the partition of the Indian subcontinent into Pakistan...
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