Recent Reads

• Judith Herrin, ‘Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire’
  by jordanreads
  January 31, 2021
  There’s a great anecdote at the start of Byzantium. The author – a Professor of Byzantine History at […]
• Karen Maitland, ‘Company of Liars’ Review
  by jordanreads
  January 17, 2021
  I think it’s best to start with the parts of Company of Liars – Karen Maitland’s ‘novel of […]
• Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, ‘Cricket 2.0’ Review
  by jordanreads
  January 8, 2021
  Cricket 2.0 is a book that’s got the cricket community talking in the last year. Wisden, the sport’s […]
• Mark Twain, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ Review
  by jordanreads
  December 28, 2020
  Although I briefly reviewed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in my ‘November Reading: Recap’ post, it’s such a beautifully constructed […]
• November Reading: Recap
  by jordanreads
  December 14, 2020
  November was quite a busy month for me, so I haven’t found the time to post any reviews […]

Judith Herrin, ‘Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire’

January 31, 2021

Karen Maitland, ‘Company of Liars’ Review

January 17, 2021

Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, ‘Cricket 2.0’ Review

January 8, 2021

Mark Twain, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ Review

December 28, 2020

November Reading: Recap

December 14, 2020

Beryl Bainbridge, ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’, Review

October 28, 2020

Tom Holland, ‘Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom’ Review

October 23, 2020

Tom Holland, ‘In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World’ Review

October 7, 2020

Reading Log

October 1, 2020

Ian McEwan, ‘Machines Like Me’ Review

September 12, 2020

Salman Rushdie, ‘Quichotte’ Review

September 2, 2020

Eugene Rogan, ‘The Arabs: A History’

August 18, 2020

Reni Eddo-Lodge, ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’

July 8, 2020

Micheal Atherton, ‘Atherton’s Ashes: How England Won the 2009 Ashes’

June 16, 2020

Henry Miller, ‘Tropic of Cancer’

May 29, 2020

Uwe Schütte, ‘Kraftwerk: Future Music From Germany’

May 21, 2020

‘Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography’

May 12, 2020

Julian Barnes, ‘The Sense of an Ending’

May 4, 2020

Competition and Co-operation in Charles Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’

April 30, 2020

Quarantine Reading

April 28, 2020

Julian Barnes, ‘England England’

April 23, 2020

The Loss of Cricket in the English Summer

April 22, 2020

Albert Camus, ‘The Stranger’ (L’Etranger)

July 22, 2019

Louis MacNiece, 1930’s Poetry and Jack Lindsay’s ‘not english?’

July 15, 2019

John Steinbeck, ‘Cannery Row’

July 8, 2019

Virginia Woolf, ‘To the Lighthouse’ Review

March 18, 2019

The Journey Begins

March 18, 2019