Read, Reading . . .

. . . to Read (maybe!)

A strange mix.

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an ageing minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. He tells a story - but is it a story the audience wants to hear? 

I have just finished Mother Naked - Exhilarating, freewheeling, brilliantly plotted and politically scathing. A book like no other. Loved this. It is a great choice for the Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize Longlist.

I am currently reading Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. A beautiful book, brilliantly illustrated. It is on the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist. I am enjoying it so far, fascinating.

The Custom of the Country was written in 1913 and is apparently a satire on American society in the first decade of the twentieth century. It’s a book I have always meant to read and I finally bought a copy recently and will read it. However, other books may push it back in the queue - see below.

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 
Announcement of the Longlist tomorrow at 8am. I’ll be there!