I fell in love with this book from the moment I came across it. First, with the plot: the lives and work of the invisible women who used to bind the books printed by the Oxford University Press during the First World War. Second, with the location: Jericho is my favourite part of Oxford, just…
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Three Engaging Crime Reads for Non-Crime Fans
I’m normally not a big crime reader, it’s just not my usual style, but I’ve been trying to expand my horizons a bit more in the last couple of years. These are three of my recommendations, books that I found a bit more interesting and slightly different to the average thriller, and they all deliver…
Book review: How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
How We Disappeared talks about the Japanese occupation of Singapore during WW2, but it’s so much more than a historically inspired novel. It’s not just about the history of a part of the world that we don’t learn enough about in Europe, but also about the traumas of the past haunting the present and the…
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