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Pete Walker’s earlier book argues that healing comes from grieving, not from rushing to forgive. A warm, practical read on anger, blame and feeling what was never safe to feel, and a useful antidote to spiritual bypassing for anyone coming from meditation or non-duality.
Maggie O'Farrell's tenth novel takes her back to Ireland and to her own family: a mapmaker and his son on a post-famine peninsula in 1865, a sacred well, and a land that remembers everything. Sweeping, mythic, and O'Farrell at her best.
A missing cat, a vanished wife, and a dry well pull Toru Okada into Japan's buried wartime past in Murakami's sprawling, strange Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Twenty years ago it was my introduction to him, so I went back to see if it would hit the same way — and found even more in it this time.
Stillness in Surrey, music on the streets of Belfast, summertime in England. A Spring/Summer round up.
Long hikes in Wicklow, Korean cop and period films, another favourite bench and Velvets in the Sun in a March April Spring round up.
I’ve been using a morning journal for a number of years. Here are some morning journal prompts to get your creative juices flowing.
The TBR pile continues to expand, no matter how many books I manage to read. Time to develop a new approach for dealing with this first world bibliophilic crisis…..
Where should you start with Haruki Murakami, and where do you go next? I've grouped his novels, story collections and non-fiction by theme rather than release date — from the essential starting points to the parallel-world epics, the quiet interior novels, and the strange corners in between.
From cosy reading chairs to e-readers and bookish stationery — the best gifts for the reader in your life, tried and tested.
Every Mickey Haller book in order, from The Lincoln Lawyer to The Proving Ground. Includes the Netflix series and all Harry Bosch crossovers.
Before Exit Party, there was The Singer’s Gun. Mandel’s quiet early crime novel is where Aria Waker first appears, and where the questions she keeps returning to begin to take shape.