This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books. Tuesday, 8 March 2016. The Book Trunk has moved to Wordpress and is now thebooktrunkblog, at. The idea, according .

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. When I was a kid, I remember watching parts of. I immediately flashed to Travolta and Newton-John singing about their new love.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Most popular reviews in 2013. The Kashmir Shawl Rosie Thomas. 100 Places You Will Never Visit, Dan Smith. The String Diaries, Stephen Lloyd Jones.

Man Booker International Prize 2018. He said he tried to avoid them, but they were aggressive and tried to kill .

Strikes me as an exercise in the aesthetics of excess. Regular readers know I strongly dislike.

Facing the darkness of ignorance with aplomb. I read the novel years ago without understanding.