The Salt of the Earth by Jozef Wittlin
As for the translation of the book, I’m not an expert but I think the name…
Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood
It is real. Her emotions are genuine and raw. In thrillers it’s usually the story that…
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
Have things really changed much since then? General information How was it? The story is very…
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
I can’t think of any other book that explores friendship so deeply, and brings up such…
The Last by Hanna Jameson
I feel like the book is trying to make a statement that if people choose wrong…
Savidge Reads at the Man Booker Prize 2018
So I have been an absolute tinker and let the second half of the year whizz…
Eleven Years of Savidge Reads…
Eleven years ago today that I first pressed publish on a blog post here on Savidge…
The Parentations – Kate Mayfield
They aren’t even sure he’s still alive. They’d tossed around ideas about him so often and…
The Man Booker Prize 2018 Longlist
So the Man Booker Prize 2018 longlist has been announced. It has seemed strange in the…
West – Carys Davies
Granta, hardback, 2018, fiction, 160 pages, kindly sent by the publisher For a week he lay…
My Books of the Year So Far (And A Chance To Win Some of Them)
What you might need, or maybe like, in your life is (as part of us catching…
Whistle in the Dark – Emma Healey
The sun had sunk behind the building and all the previously golden edges were now grey….
Going Forward…
What do you all think? What would you like to see in terms of books, bookish…