Heather Harpham is a writer, teacher and theatre artist whose fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a number of magazines in the UK. Her memoir, “Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After”, came out in 2017 and was selected for Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers series,Continue Reading
A young woman in her mid-20s decides to take a year to relax and rest. Without a valid reason, without a real liberating force, without a specific event, she falls into a “hibernation”. At first I was quite sceptical, whether this setting could be used to develop into a novelContinue Reading
Little Fires Everywhere is a novel by American writer Celeste Ng, published in 2017 and recreated in mini-series by Reese Witherspoon in 2020, making the world’s exclusive bestseller even more popular. The story takes place in 1998, when the house of one of the most successful and tidy families inContinue Reading
I hadn’t heard of Gail Honeyman’s book until now, and I seem to have missed out on it. Recently, “Eleanor Oliphant is perfectly fine”, her debut novel, which won in 2017 the English book award Costa in the category “First novel”, fell into my hands and I read it, mainlyContinue Reading
This book Daisy Jones & The Six is real Rock&Roll. Every sentence, every word is imbued with the sounds of rock. While reading, I had the feeling, I was in the middle of the events. Daisy Jones & The Six tells the story of a group from the seventies ofContinue Reading
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.” – Isola Pribby Written in the form of letters, the book by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows touches on the world-famous theme of World War II, which has caused so much sorrow to humanity. Despite the difficult topic, however, theContinue Reading
