Pocket Reviews

A timeless masterpiece A modern novel already a classic, for both the realism with which it has been designed, and its plot and structure. A...

  The Indigestibility of Bad Books A solid batter of pseudo-intellectual clichés with Parisian-Japanese sauce, this novel is about the unlikely redemption of a dejected janitress,...

An Unpleasant Mess A novel that should be rightfully ranked in the books-to-be-forgotten category, it is about the picaresque adventures, from birth to extreme old...

Let down by the end of his first love story, Devin, a college student, accepts a seasonal job in a small-town amusement park, where...

As written by Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Jane Howard is a craftswoman, because in order to build such a monumental work, where nothing is uncalculated,...

Bigger Thomas grew up in the black ghetto of Chicago where, even though he has good examples, he lives day to day on the...

The Enchanted Summer tells the story of Tom, Doug, John and other kids (and adults) who live in Green Town, a small town in...

The human aspect of power Considering the large number of people who have discovered John Williams’s writing through his most famous novel, Stoner, this “new”...

This historical novel is based on a real fact: in 1875 the US president Grant signed a treaty involving the trade of 1000 white...

This is a funny and enthralling diary of a Scottish second-hand bookseller and his encounters with strange clients and bizarre co-workers. Very often, it’s...