South Africa

In My Reading Log, Summer 2017

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In which there is talk of novels which were read too quickly to allow for extensive note-taking and snapshots: good reading. Yewande Omotoso's The Woman Next Door (2017) Longlisted for the Women's Fiction Prize this year, this story about two women in their eighties, neighbours in South Africa, is quietly

In My Reading Log, Summer 2017Buried In Print2017-09-20T10:23:01-04:00

Miranda Sherry’s Black Dog Summer (2015)

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It’s frightening, what happened to the author late one night travelling on a dark road after an exhausting studio session, forced to suddenly stop because of two shadowy figures ahead. (You can read about the event in an article on her UK publisher's site, here.) Simon & Schuster, 2015

Miranda Sherry’s Black Dog Summer (2015)Buried In Print2015-06-11T13:10:39-04:00