Terry Pratchett – The color of magic.The Colour of Magic feels like someone dropped Monty Python into a fantasy world and gave existential anxiety a wizard hat.Behind all the chaos, luggage with legs, and people exploding accidentally, Pratchett quietly whispers: humans are ridiculous… but somehow still lovable. The Colour of Magic was Terry Pratchett’s first book in … Read more
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into … Read more
Winner of the 2021 Women”s Prize for FictionA SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, ‘one of our greatest living authors’ NEW YORK MAGAZINE__________________________________Piranesi lives in the HousePerhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its … Read more
Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone:My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin … Read more
Pip Williams – The Dictionary of Lost Words: This book is currently on the reading list and will likely become part of the ongoing reflections and second readings on the site.