Short writing about books worth reading

Odd Shelves, merged libraries, mail-order catalogues and over-inscribed gifts: eighteen essays on a life lived in books.

In his tragicomic fourth novel, Paul Murray unravels a small-town Irish family in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.

Olivia Laing’s second novel apprentices an English boy to a magician of Italian cinema, in the months leading up to the events of November 1975.

A frog in the freezer, an immortal printer, and a new Yiddish word for Zoom fatigue: on Anne Fadiman’s latest collection.

Six interlinked stories, warm and unhurried, from a fictional Kentucky town.

Joanna Pocock retraces a Greyhound journey across America

A tale about an island where vanishing is ordinary, and remembering is dangerous.

Bennett’s writing about love and memory catches you mid-air.

A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.

This publication holds 40 books.
23 are fiction, 17 are non-fiction.
A new book arrives monthly.

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