Nicola's Book Club - Another Way to Travel the World

She loved the feel of books, their integrity as objects. The wing-plan of them, the scent and warmth of paper. She loved the relative stiffness of the cover and the sentience of settled print. Random flicking of pages, inscriptions, dog-ears. She loved – though it was a sin – to see books left open upside down, their bird shape accentuated in the keeping of a page.
- an extract from "Dreams of Speaking" by Gail Jones (Australia, born 1955)

 

Reviews

Last Evenings on Earth

by Roberto Bolaño (Chile)

This is the first collection of fourteen stories by acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English. Imbued with ‘the melancholy folk...

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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison (United States)

One of Nicola's 100 best books for inspiration in the 21st century! Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winn...

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Nervous Conditions

by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)

One of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
One of Nicola's 100 best books for inspirati...

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Lost City Radio

by Daniel Alarcon (Peru)

Ever since the civil war that took her husband ended, Norma has been the voice of consolation to a people broken by violence. Every week, bereft fa...

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The Blood of Flowers

by Anita Amirrezvani (Iran)

When the unnamed narrator’s father dies and with it her dreams of marriage end, she and her mother have to leave their village and travel to ...

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The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga (India)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 Balram Halwai, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village o...

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