What a charming book. Its easily one of the most enjoyable I’ve read this year. It’s Sandi Toksvig’s autobiography – or perhaps memoir would be a better word - but structured unlike any other memoir I’ve ever read. Instead of a chronological account of her life – I was born in... – she builds it …
Tuesdays Are Just As Bad
Teenage Adam fails to kill himself and wakes up in hospital to find that he has a ghost: his own dark thoughts now given voice. And it’s the ghost who narrates this story, observing Adam’s return to school, his struggles with bullies, with new friends, and in particular with Aoife, a Goth girl he begins …
Goodnight Mister Tom
I can understand why this is regarded as modern classic. The setting’s vivid; all the characters – however fleeting an appearance they make - are memorable; and the story of how a shy, mistreated WWII evacuee comes out of his shell in the English countryside holds you in its grip from page 1. When he …
Denying the Holocaust
The film Denial led me to Deborah Lipstadt’s book of the same name, her account of the trial that followed David Irving suing her for libel in 1996. And they in turn brought me to this book, the one which Irving said had libelled him as a Holocaust denier. It’s not as easy to read …
