Cloud Cuckoo Land

By Anthony Doerr

I think a book with these ambitions needs to be warm, organic, feel alive - but it is surprisingly cold and clinical. I’m not really sure what makes it so, maybe the storylines are too flat, maybe the characters lack...

Life Lived Wild

By Rick Ridgeway

Rick Ridgeway’s writing has a bit of a rough-hewn, simple style that I don’t think will win many awards - and at first, that I didn’t think I liked that much. But there is also a deep, earnest sincerity to...

The Memoirs Of Stockholm Sven

By Nathaniel Ian Miller

There is, for me, an undeniable allure in Svalbard and the Arctic (and Antarctic). Austere, windswept desolation, wide vistas, creatures eking out a living amongst the snow and ice - it is romantic. It feels so alien, so antithetical to...

The Committed

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fugitive Telemetry

By Martha Wells

A Desolation Called Peace

By Arkady Martine