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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.
An audiologist recommended this book instead of a £2,000 hearing aid upgrade. Five years into living with tinnitus, here’s what Beyond the Noise by Dr Gladys Sanda offers, and who it’ll help most.
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.
I’ve been dipping into Kindle+ (formerly Kindle Unlimited) on a free three-month offer, and I’ve used Libby through my local library for years. Here’s how the UK’s ebook subscriptions compare on price, range and value, which ones I’d actually pay for, and how to read ebooks for free.
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.
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.
Lilia disappears from Brooklyn, and Eli follows her to Montreal. Mandel’s first novel is dark, enigmatic and slow-burning, and it left me with questions I’m still asking. If you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your take.