QBD Reviews: The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Bloomsbury have added this beautiful edition of The Song of Achilles to their Modern Classics list this month! We all know the story of the hero Achilles, named greatest of the Greeks at Troy, who was brought low by the infamous weakness in his heel – or we think we do. Madeline Miller revisits this […]
QBD Reviews: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The magical new novel from the bestselling author of The Night Circus. When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a […]
QBD Reviews: Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
Houellebecq has famously called English the language of Donald Duck, so perhaps it is no wonder that Shaun Whiteside’s English translation (due for release September 26) was held back six months later than all other translations. And look, I bought a first edition in French (and it came with a beautiful Houellebecq-themed French bookmark that […]
QBD Reviews: Khaki Town by Judy Nunn
Khaki Town, Judy Nunn’s exciting new novel, is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years.
