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  • Audiobook
    • 20 Jan 2022 Book Review - The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh
    • 30 Dec 2021 Book Review - Windswept and Interesting - Billy Connolly
    • 2 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology - Mark Boyle
  • Fiction
    • 27 Nov 2024 Book Review - The Waiting by Michael Connelly
    • 31 Jan 2022 Book Review - Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
    • 29 Jan 2022 Book Review - The Saints of Swallow Hill - Donna Everhart
    • 26 Jan 2022 Book Review - Boys Don’t Cry - Fíona Scarlett
    • 18 Jan 2022 Book Review - Let Me Be Frank With You - Richard Ford
    • 16 Jan 2022 Book Review - Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
    • 9 Jan 2022 Book Review - The Raptures - Jan Carson
    • 24 Dec 2021 Book Review - The Dark Hours - Michael Connelly
    • 22 Dec 2021 Book Review - Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
    • 21 Dec 2021 Book Review - Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
    • 4 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Survivors - Jane Harper
    • 27 Oct 2021 Book Review - Nightmare Alley - William Lindsay Gresham
    • 19 Oct 2021 Book Review - Beautiful World, Where are you - Sally Rooney
  • Fiction Book Review
    • 5 Jun 2026 Ironwood by Michael Connelly
    • 19 May 2026 Hooked by Asako Yuzuki
    • 12 Apr 2026 Few and Far Between by Jan Carson
    • 31 Jan 2026 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
    • 3 Dec 2025 The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
    • 22 Nov 2025 The Names by Florence Knapp
    • 17 Aug 2025 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
    • 21 Jul 2025 The City and its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
    • 25 Jun 2025 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - Book Review
    • 5 Nov 2024 Book Review - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
    • 11 Oct 2024 Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
    • 4 Sept 2024 Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
    • 9 Aug 2024 True Love by Paddy Crewe
    • 20 Jul 2024 The God of The Woods by Liz Moore
    • 1 Jun 2024 The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
    • 13 May 2024 Earth by John Boyne
    • 14 Apr 2024 North Woods by Daniel Mason
    • 5 Apr 2024 Book Review - Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
    • 19 Jan 2024 Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
    • 15 Nov 2023 Book Review - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
    • 26 Oct 2023 Holly by Stephen King
    • 22 Oct 2023 If It Bleeds by Stephen King
    • 21 Sept 2023 Be Mine - Richard Ford (Frank Bascombe #5)
    • 12 Sept 2023 Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
    • 16 Aug 2023 Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
    • 10 Aug 2023 A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles - Book Review
    • 22 Jul 2023 Book Review - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
    • 22 Jun 2023 Desert Flowers - Paul Pen
    • 26 May 2023 Book Review - The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
    • 29 Apr 2023 Book Review - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
    • 30 Mar 2023 Book Review - Exiles by Jane Harper
    • 23 Mar 2023 Book Review - Camp Zero - Michelle Min Sterling
    • 7 Feb 2023 Book Review - Desert Star - Michael Connelly
    • 1 Feb 2023 Book Review - Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
    • 27 Jan 2023 Book Review -Bret Easton Ellis - The Shards
    • 22 Jan 2023 Book Review - Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz
    • 29 Dec 2022 Book Review - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre
    • 24 Dec 2022 Book Review - The Glass hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
    • 11 Dec 2022 Book Review - Magpie murders by Anthony Horowitz
    • 22 Nov 2022 Book Review - Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger
    • 7 Nov 2022 Book Review - Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
    • 16 Oct 2022 Book Review - Stephen King - Fairy Tale
    • 21 Sept 2022 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    • 12 Aug 2022 Book Review - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno Garcia
    • 16 Jul 2022 Bad Relations - Cressida Connolly
    • 16 Jun 2022 Book Review - The Island - Adrian McKinty
    • 11 Jun 2022 Book Review - The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
    • 9 Jun 2022 Book Review-Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
    • 3 Jun 2022 Book Review - Grand Hotel Europa - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
    • 13 May 2022 Book review - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
    • 29 Apr 2022 Book Review - Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart
    • 27 Apr 2022 Book review - Songbirds - Christy Lefteri
    • 16 Apr 2022 Book Review - The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly
    • 20 Mar 2022 Audiobook Review - The end of the affair - Graham Greene, read by Colin Firth
    • 18 Feb 2022 Book Review - The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley
    • 19 Dec 2021 Book Review - Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
    • 13 Dec 2021 Book review - Winterkill - Ragnar Jónasson
    • 12 Dec 2021 Book Review - No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
    • 5 Dec 2021 Book Review - To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara
    • 1 Dec 2021 Book Review - Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen
    • 30 Nov 2021 Book Review - Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
    • 26 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
    • 6 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
    • 14 Oct 2021 Book Review - The Black Angel (Charlie Parker #5) - John Connolly
    • 5 Oct 2021 Book Review - Five Little Indians - Michelle Good
    • 29 Sept 2021 Book Review - Billy Summers - Stephen King
  • Irish
    • 16 Jul 2025 Stench by Trish Bennett
    • 26 Jan 2022 Book Review - Boys Don’t Cry - Fíona Scarlett
    • 23 Dec 2021 Book Review -Thin Places - Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
    • 2 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology - Mark Boyle
    • 29 Oct 2021 Book Review - Northern Protestants On Shifting Ground
    • 19 Oct 2021 Book Review - Beautiful World, Where are you - Sally Rooney
  • Irish Fiction Book Review
    • 6 Jul 2025 Air - John Boyne
    • 10 Nov 2024 Book Review -Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
    • 15 Jul 2024 Long Island by Colm Tóibín
    • 24 Jun 2024 The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
    • 1 Feb 2024 Quickly, While They Still Have Horses by Jan Carson
    • 10 Dec 2023 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
    • 4 Dec 2023 Book Review - Water by John Boyne
    • 20 Nov 2023 Book Review - The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
    • 28 Aug 2023 The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
    • 22 Aug 2023 Kala by Colin Walsh
    • 31 Jul 2023 Book Review - Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
    • 25 Jul 2023 Book Review - The Trap - Catherine Ryan Howard
    • 22 Jul 2023 Book Review - Winter People by Gráinne Murphy
    • 16 Jun 2023 Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
    • 31 May 2023 Book Review - Close to Home by Michael Magee
    • 14 Mar 2023 Book Review - My Father’s House - Joseph O’Connor
    • 17 Feb 2023 Book Review - All the Broken Places by John Boyne
    • 19 Oct 2022 Book Review - The Colony - Audrey Magee
    • 10 Oct 2022 Book Review - Factory Girls - Michelle Gallen
    • 8 Sept 2022 Book Review - The Queen of Dirt Island - Donal Ryan
    • 20 Aug 2022 Book Review - Tennis Lessons - Susannah Dickey
    • 30 Jul 2022 Book Review - Before my heart actually breaks - Tish Delaney
    • 4 May 2022 Book Review - Sweet home - Wendy Erskine
    • 27 Mar 2022 Book Review - Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
    • 16 Mar 2022 Rejuvenation Book 1 (The Rejuvenation trilogy) - Byddi Lee
    • 2 Mar 2022 Book Review - These Days - Lucy Caldwell
    • 11 Dec 2021 Book Review - Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession
    • 4 Dec 2021 Book Review - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
    • 24 Nov 2021 Book review - The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard
    • 20 Nov 2021 Snowflake - Louise Nealon - Book Review
  • Irish Non Fiction Book Review
    • 14 Sept 2025 Eimear Ryan - The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport
    • 19 Dec 2023 A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell
    • 23 May 2023 Book Review - Anam Cara - A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue
    • 7 Oct 2022 Book Review - Diary of a Young Naturalist - Dara McAnulty
    • 13 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - Walking with Ghosts: A memoir - Gabriel Byrne
    • 21 Dec 2021 Book review - Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape - Manchán Magan
    • 28 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Monk - Paul Williams
    • 22 Nov 2021 Book review - Rememberings - Sinéad O’Connor
    • 10 Nov 2021 Book Review - Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
    • 11 Oct 2021 Book Review - Did ye hear Mammy died? - Séamus O’Reilly
  • Non Fiction Book Review
    • 1 Jun 2026 London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
    • 9 Mar 2026 Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life by Shunryū Suzuki
    • 4 Jan 2026 Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer
    • 1 Nov 2025 Collision With the Infinite by Suzanne Segal
    • 12 Oct 2025 In This Body, In This Lifetime - Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women - Edited by Esho Sudan, Translated by Kogen Czarnik
    • 30 Aug 2025 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia laing
    • 10 Aug 2025 Awareness by Anthony De Mello
    • 29 Jul 2025 A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
    • 17 Jun 2025 Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
    • 2 Jun 2025 The Wager by David Grann
    • 17 Mar 2025 A Freewheelin’ Time - A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo
    • 26 Feb 2025 The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall
    • 7 Oct 2024 Prisoners of Geography - The Quiz Book - Tim Marshall
    • 26 Jun 2024 The Snakehead -Patrick Radden Keefe
    • 23 Jun 2024 I Am That by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaja
    • 20 Jun 2024 Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
    • 28 Apr 2024 Effortless Being by David Bingham
    • 13 Feb 2024 Audiobook Review - Big Beacon: A Lighthouse Rebuilt, A Broadcaster Reborn
    • 26 Jan 2024 Who Am I?/Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi and David Godman
    • 18 Jan 2024 Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
    • 13 Jan 2024 Set it and Forget it: Are you Ready to Transform your Sleep? by Daniel Erichsen
    • 7 Jan 2024 Benchtalk - Wisdoms Inspired in Nature
    • 2 Jan 2024 Pouring Concrete: A Zen Path to the Kingdom of God by Robert Harwood
    • 29 Nov 2023 Book Review - The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
    • 29 Oct 2023 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    • 3 Oct 2023 The Way of Liberation - Adyashanti
    • 25 Sept 2023 Awake: It’s Your Turn by Angelo DiLullo
    • 2 Sept 2023 The Untethered Soul - Michael A. Singer
    • 14 Aug 2023 Ootlin by Jenni Fagan - Book Review
    • 2 Aug 2023 The Power of Geography - Tim Marshall
    • 15 Jul 2023 Book Review - The Practice of Not Thinking by Ryunosuke Koike
    • 12 Jul 2023 Book Review - Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
    • 25 May 2023 Book Review - The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom by Ali Millar
    • 28 Mar 2023 Book Review - A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
    • 26 Mar 2023 Book Review - I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk - Björn Natthiko Lindeblad
    • 15 Mar 2023 Book Review - Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again - Johann Hari
    • 2 Dec 2022 Book Review - North to Paradise - Ousman Umar
    • 27 Nov 2022 Book Review - The Brain that Changes itself - Norman Doidge
    • 16 Nov 2022 Book Review - Underland: A deep time journey by Robert Macfarlane
    • 10 Sept 2022 Book Review - Rogues - Patrick Radden Keefe
    • 31 Jul 2022 Book Review - When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
    • 29 Jun 2022 Book Review- Ghosts of the Tsunami - Richard Lloyd Parry
    • 29 May 2022 Book review - This is Vegan Propaganda (and other lies the meat industry tells you) - Ed Winters
    • 25 Apr 2022 Audiobook Review - The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr
    • 30 Mar 2022 Book Review - I am an Island - Tamsin Calidas
    • 10 Mar 2022 Book review - The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present - Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon.
    • 27 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
    • 25 Feb 2022 Book Review - The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
    • 23 Feb 2022 Book Review - Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan
    • 15 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart - Noreena Hertz
    • 7 Feb 2022 Wintering by Katherine May: Book Review
    • 20 Dec 2021 Book Review -Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
    • 17 Dec 2021 Book Review - Hidden Valley Road - Inside the mind of an American Family-Robert Kolker
    • 3 Dec 2021 Book Review - Utopia For Realists (And how we get there) - Rutger Bregman
    • 18 Nov 2021 Book Review - Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
    • 12 Nov 2021 Book Review - Listen- How to Find The Words for Tender Conversations - Kathryn Mannix
    • 8 Nov 2021 Book Review - A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan - Richard Balls
  • Non-Fiction
    • 7 Oct 2022 Book Review - Diary of a Young Naturalist - Dara McAnulty
    • 10 Sept 2022 Book Review - Rogues - Patrick Radden Keefe
    • 11 Aug 2022 Book Review - Lost Connections - Johann Hari
    • 31 Jul 2022 Book Review - When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
    • 29 Jun 2022 Book Review- Ghosts of the Tsunami - Richard Lloyd Parry
    • 29 May 2022 Book review - This is Vegan Propaganda (and other lies the meat industry tells you) - Ed Winters
    • 25 Apr 2022 Audiobook Review - The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr
    • 9 Apr 2022 Book Review - On Bloody Sunday - Julieanne Campbell
    • 30 Mar 2022 Book Review - I am an Island - Tamsin Calidas
    • 10 Mar 2022 Book review - The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present - Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon.
    • 27 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
    • 25 Feb 2022 Book Review - The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
    • 13 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - Walking with Ghosts: A memoir - Gabriel Byrne
    • 7 Feb 2022 Wintering by Katherine May: Book Review
    • 20 Jan 2022 Book Review - The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh
    • 30 Dec 2021 Book Review - Windswept and Interesting - Billy Connolly
    • 23 Dec 2021 Book Review -Thin Places - Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
    • 21 Dec 2021 Book review - Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape - Manchán Magan
    • 20 Dec 2021 Book Review -Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
    • 17 Dec 2021 Book Review - Hidden Valley Road - Inside the mind of an American Family-Robert Kolker
    • 3 Dec 2021 Book Review - Utopia For Realists (And how we get there) - Rutger Bregman
    • 28 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Monk - Paul Williams
    • 22 Nov 2021 Book review - Rememberings - Sinéad O’Connor
    • 18 Nov 2021 Book Review - Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
    • 12 Nov 2021 Book Review - Listen- How to Find The Words for Tender Conversations - Kathryn Mannix
    • 10 Nov 2021 Book Review - Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
    • 8 Nov 2021 Book Review - A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan - Richard Balls
    • 2 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology - Mark Boyle
    • 29 Oct 2021 Book Review - Northern Protestants On Shifting Ground
    • 15 Oct 2021 Book Review - Listening to Bob Dylan - Larry Starr
    • 11 Oct 2021 Book Review - Did ye hear Mammy died? - Séamus O’Reilly
  • nature
    • 16 Nov 2022 Book Review - Underland: A deep time journey by Robert Macfarlane
  • science
    • 16 Nov 2022 Book Review - Underland: A deep time journey by Robert Macfarlane
  • #irelandreadingmonth2023
    • 14 Mar 2023 Book Review - My Father’s House - Joseph O’Connor 14 Mar 2023
  • #readingirelandmonth22
    • 27 Mar 2022 Book Review - Trespasses - Louise Kennedy 27 Mar 2022
    • 16 Mar 2022 Rejuvenation Book 1 (The Rejuvenation trilogy) - Byddi Lee 16 Mar 2022
    • 2 Mar 2022 Book Review - These Days - Lucy Caldwell 2 Mar 2022
  • 2021
    • 29 Sept 2021 Book Review - Billy Summers - Stephen King 29 Sept 2021
  • 2022 NonFiction Reader Challenge
    • 27 Nov 2022 Book Review - The Brain that Changes itself - Norman Doidge 27 Nov 2022
    • 16 Nov 2022 Book Review - Underland: A deep time journey by Robert Macfarlane 16 Nov 2022
    • 7 Oct 2022 Book Review - Diary of a Young Naturalist - Dara McAnulty 7 Oct 2022
    • 11 Aug 2022 Book Review - Lost Connections - Johann Hari 11 Aug 2022
    • 29 Jun 2022 Book Review- Ghosts of the Tsunami - Richard Lloyd Parry 29 Jun 2022
    • 25 Apr 2022 Audiobook Review - The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr 25 Apr 2022
    • 10 Mar 2022 Book review - The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present - Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon. 10 Mar 2022
    • 15 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart - Noreena Hertz 15 Feb 2022
  • 2023 Non Fiction challenge
    • 20 May 2023 Book Review - Empire of Pain - The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe 20 May 2023
    • 15 Mar 2023 Book Review - Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again - Johann Hari 15 Mar 2023
  • 2024 Non-Fiction Reading Challenge
    • 18 Jan 2024 Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton 18 Jan 2024
    • 13 Jan 2024 Set it and Forget it: Are you Ready to Transform your Sleep? by Daniel Erichsen 13 Jan 2024
    • 2 Jan 2024 Pouring Concrete: A Zen Path to the Kingdom of God by Robert Harwood 2 Jan 2024
  • 2025 Non Fiction Challenge
    • 2 Jun 2025 The Wager by David Grann 2 Jun 2025
    • 26 Feb 2025 The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall 26 Feb 2025
  • Audiobook
    • 5 Aug 2025 Nightshade - Michael Connelly 5 Aug 2025
    • 6 Mar 2024 Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II by Mala Kacenberg 6 Mar 2024
    • 13 Feb 2024 Audiobook Review - Big Beacon: A Lighthouse Rebuilt, A Broadcaster Reborn 13 Feb 2024
    • 7 Nov 2022 Book Review - Fair Warning by Michael Connelly 7 Nov 2022
    • 25 Apr 2022 Audiobook Review - The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr 25 Apr 2022
    • 20 Mar 2022 Audiobook Review - The end of the affair - Graham Greene, read by Colin Firth 20 Mar 2022
    • 27 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey 27 Feb 2022
    • 15 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart - Noreena Hertz 15 Feb 2022
    • 22 Nov 2021 Book review - Rememberings - Sinéad O’Connor 22 Nov 2021
    • 5 Oct 2021 Book Review - Five Little Indians - Michelle Good 5 Oct 2021
  • Autobiography
    • 2 Dec 2022 Book Review - North to Paradise - Ousman Umar 2 Dec 2022
    • 27 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey 27 Feb 2022
    • 23 Feb 2022 Book Review - Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan 23 Feb 2022
    • 30 Dec 2021 Book Review - Windswept and Interesting - Billy Connolly 30 Dec 2021
    • 22 Nov 2021 Book review - Rememberings - Sinéad O’Connor 22 Nov 2021
  • Biography
    • 10 Mar 2022 Book review - The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present - Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon. 10 Mar 2022
    • 8 Nov 2021 Book Review - A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan - Richard Balls 8 Nov 2021
  • Bookclub
    • 29 Apr 2023 Book Review - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 29 Apr 2023
    • 22 Jan 2023 Book Review - Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz 22 Jan 2023
    • 21 Sept 2022 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 21 Sept 2022
    • 11 Jun 2022 Book Review - The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich 11 Jun 2022
    • 9 Jun 2022 Book Review-Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 9 Jun 2022
    • 21 Dec 2021 Book Review - Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart 21 Dec 2021
    • 19 Dec 2021 Book Review - Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro 19 Dec 2021
    • 17 Dec 2021 Book Review - Hidden Valley Road - Inside the mind of an American Family-Robert Kolker 17 Dec 2021
    • 11 Dec 2021 Book Review - Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession 11 Dec 2021
    • 24 Nov 2021 Book review - The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard 24 Nov 2021
    • 6 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett 6 Nov 2021
    • 5 Oct 2021 Book Review - Five Little Indians - Michelle Good 5 Oct 2021
  • Buddhism
    • 9 Mar 2026 Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life by Shunryū Suzuki 9 Mar 2026
    • 12 Oct 2025 In This Body, In This Lifetime - Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women - Edited by Esho Sudan, Translated by Kogen Czarnik 12 Oct 2025
    • 3 Oct 2023 The Way of Liberation - Adyashanti 3 Oct 2023
    • 15 Jul 2023 Book Review - The Practice of Not Thinking by Ryunosuke Koike 15 Jul 2023
    • 26 Mar 2023 Book Review - I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk - Björn Natthiko Lindeblad 26 Mar 2023
    • 20 Jan 2022 Book Review - The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh 20 Jan 2022
  • Comedy
    • 13 Feb 2024 Audiobook Review - Big Beacon: A Lighthouse Rebuilt, A Broadcaster Reborn 13 Feb 2024
  • Contemporary
    • 31 May 2026 The Eyes of Gaza by Plestia Alaqad 31 May 2026
    • 20 Oct 2025 Men in Love by Irvine Welsh 20 Oct 2025
    • 6 Jul 2025 Air - John Boyne 6 Jul 2025
    • 25 Jun 2025 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - Book Review 25 Jun 2025
    • 10 Nov 2024 Book Review -Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 10 Nov 2024
    • 9 Aug 2024 True Love by Paddy Crewe 9 Aug 2024
    • 13 May 2024 Earth by John Boyne 13 May 2024
    • 21 Sept 2023 Be Mine - Richard Ford (Frank Bascombe #5) 21 Sept 2023
    • 22 Jul 2023 Book Review - Winter People by Gráinne Murphy 22 Jul 2023
    • 22 Jul 2023 Book Review - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 22 Jul 2023
    • 16 Jun 2023 Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan 16 Jun 2023
    • 1 Feb 2023 Book Review - Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel 1 Feb 2023
    • 27 Apr 2022 Book review - Songbirds - Christy Lefteri 27 Apr 2022
    • 26 Jan 2022 Book Review - Boys Don’t Cry - Fíona Scarlett 26 Jan 2022
    • 12 Dec 2021 Book Review - No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood 12 Dec 2021
    • 11 Dec 2021 Book Review - Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession 11 Dec 2021
    • 5 Dec 2021 Book Review - To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara 5 Dec 2021
    • 20 Nov 2021 Snowflake - Louise Nealon - Book Review 20 Nov 2021
    • 6 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett 6 Nov 2021
  • Crime
    • 5 Jun 2026 Ironwood by Michael Connelly 5 Jun 2026
    • 22 Sept 2025 The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away With It by Glenn Patterson 22 Sept 2025
    • 25 Aug 2025 Butter by Asako Yuzuki 25 Aug 2025
    • 5 Aug 2025 Nightshade - Michael Connelly 5 Aug 2025
    • 9 Mar 2025 The Broken River - Chris Hammer 9 Mar 2025
    • 27 Nov 2024 Book Review - The Waiting by Michael Connelly 27 Nov 2024
    • 5 Nov 2024 Book Review - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 5 Nov 2024
    • 4 Sept 2024 Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville 4 Sept 2024
    • 26 Jun 2024 The Snakehead -Patrick Radden Keefe 26 Jun 2024
    • 19 Jan 2024 Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly 19 Jan 2024
    • 26 Oct 2023 Holly by Stephen King 26 Oct 2023
    • 12 Sept 2023 Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane 12 Sept 2023
    • 25 Jul 2023 Book Review - The Trap - Catherine Ryan Howard 25 Jul 2023
    • 30 Mar 2023 Book Review - Exiles by Jane Harper 30 Mar 2023
    • 12 Feb 2023 Book Review - The Night Man - Jørn Lier Horst 12 Feb 2023
    • 7 Feb 2023 Book Review - Desert Star - Michael Connelly 7 Feb 2023
    • 22 Jan 2023 Book Review - Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz 22 Jan 2023
    • 11 Dec 2022 Book Review - Magpie murders by Anthony Horowitz 11 Dec 2022
    • 16 Jun 2022 Book Review - The Island - Adrian McKinty 16 Jun 2022
    • 16 Apr 2022 Book Review - The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly 16 Apr 2022
    • 24 Dec 2021 Book Review - The Dark Hours - Michael Connelly 24 Dec 2021
    • 13 Dec 2021 Book review - Winterkill - Ragnar Jónasson 13 Dec 2021
    • 28 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Monk - Paul Williams 28 Nov 2021
    • 24 Nov 2021 Book review - The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard 24 Nov 2021
    • 14 Oct 2021 Book Review - The Black Angel (Charlie Parker #5) - John Connolly 14 Oct 2021
    • 29 Sept 2021 Book Review - Billy Summers - Stephen King 29 Sept 2021
  • Detective
    • 5 Aug 2025 Nightshade - Michael Connelly 5 Aug 2025
    • 12 Feb 2023 Book Review - The Night Man - Jørn Lier Horst 12 Feb 2023
    • 13 Dec 2021 Book review - Winterkill - Ragnar Jónasson 13 Dec 2021
  • Dylan
    • 15 Oct 2021 Book Review - Listening to Bob Dylan - Larry Starr 15 Oct 2021
  • Economics
    • 15 Feb 2022 Audiobook Review - The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart - Noreena Hertz 15 Feb 2022
  • Emotional
    • 30 Mar 2022 Book Review - I am an Island - Tamsin Calidas 30 Mar 2022
    • 20 Mar 2022 Audiobook Review - The end of the affair - Graham Greene, read by Colin Firth 20 Mar 2022
    • 29 Jan 2022 Book Review - The Saints of Swallow Hill - Donna Everhart 29 Jan 2022
    • 21 Dec 2021 Book Review - Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart 21 Dec 2021
    • 26 Nov 2021 Book Review - The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 26 Nov 2021
    • 5 Oct 2021 Book Review - Five Little Indians - Michelle Good 5 Oct 2021
  • General Fiction
    • 20 Oct 2025 Men in Love by Irvine Welsh 20 Oct 2025
    • 6 Jul 2025 Air - John Boyne 6 Jul 2025
    • 25 Jun 2025 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - Book Review 25 Jun 2025
    • 9 Aug 2024 True Love by Paddy Crewe 9 Aug 2024
    • 14 Apr 2024 North Woods by Daniel Mason 14 Apr 2024
    • 10 Dec 2023 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 10 Dec 2023
    • 4 Dec 2023 Book Review - Water by John Boyne 4 Dec 2023
    • 22 Jun 2023 Desert Flowers - Paul Pen 22 Jun 2023
    • 16 Jun 2023 Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan 16 Jun 2023
    • 31 May 2023 Book Review - Close to Home by Michael Magee 31 May 2023
    • 17 May 2023 Book Review - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 17 May 2023
    • 19 Oct 2022 Book Review - The Colony - Audrey Magee 19 Oct 2022
    • 8 Sept 2022 Book Review - The Queen of Dirt Island - Donal Ryan 8 Sept 2022
    • 20 Aug 2022 Book Review - Tennis Lessons - Susannah Dickey 20 Aug 2022
    • 30 Jul 2022 Book Review - Before my heart actually breaks - Tish Delaney 30 Jul 2022
    • 16 Jul 2022 Bad Relations - Cressida Connolly 16 Jul 2022
    • 3 Jun 2022 Book Review - Grand Hotel Europa - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 3 Jun 2022
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    • 18 Jan 2024 Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton 18 Jan 2024
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    • 12 Nov 2021 Book Review - Listen- How to Find The Words for Tender Conversations - Kathryn Mannix 12 Nov 2021
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    • 14 Sept 2025 Eimear Ryan - The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport 14 Sept 2025
    • 30 Aug 2025 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia laing 30 Aug 2025
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    • 5 Dec 2021 Book Review - To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara 5 Dec 2021
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