Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
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Redemption in Indigo
Read the World: Barbados Redemption in Indigo has the feel of a folk tale. The narrator is a storyteller, and often addresses the reader directly, sometimes even to chide you. It starts off by introducing Ansige, Paama’s gluttonous husband. Paama…
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Read the World: Nigeria Korede’s sister, Ayoola, is beautiful, charming and possibly a serial killer. How many murders does it take? Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead and Korede is there to help clean up the mess….
Vita Nostra
Read The World: Ukraine Sasha Samokhina is a straight A student looking forward to going to university. When on holiday with her single mother a strange man starts to follow her. He sets her a challenge to repeat every day,…
Quickie Reviews
With all this nice weather, it’s been hard to sit indoors and write reviews. So here are some brief thoughts on things I read a while ago now. The Best We Could Do is a graphic memoir by Thi Bui….
The Three-Body Problem
Read the World: China Where to begin? The Three-Body Problem is the first instalment of a popular Chinese science fiction trilogy by Cixin Liu* which has been translated into English by Ken Liu. It’s the first Chinese book I have…
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Read the World: Japan I’m not sure why I picked up The Travelling Cat Chronicles, it’s not my usual thing and I’m not even a cat person, but I have been wanting to read more translated work, so there is…
Freedom Hospital
Read the World: Syria Freedom Hospital is a mix of fact and fiction, based around an underground Syrian hospital which tends to injured rebels. At the start of the book, it feels like the rebels wanted a peaceful solution to…
Anna
Read the World: Italy When the Red Fever came, it killed only the adults. On the island of Siciliy, young Anna and her little brother Astor are left orphaned. Before her death, their mother wrote The Book of Important things,…
Persepolis
Read the World: Iran I didn’t really know much about Iran, other than it doesn’t get on with neighbouring Iraq much, so Persepolis gave me a brief introduction on its more recent history. Before the comic strips start there is…
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