The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards is the author of the short story collection The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/ Hemingway Award, and she has won both the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she is an assistant professor of English at the [...]

My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl

The book in one sentence: Oswald Cornelius is “the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time;” a young, handsome, rich, enterprising, hot-blooded male with a sense of humour and the world as his oyster!
Who would you recommend it to: Anyone looking for a fun, witty read. It’s not serious, but it’s [...]

The Man Who Counted - Malba Tahan

The book in one sentence: The mathematical version of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.
Who would you recommend it to: People who enjoyed The Alchemist, or those interested in the magic of mathematics. Also to boys who like mathematics but not necessarily reading.
OK bits: I enjoyed the way how some numbers are shown to be ‘magic.’
Boring bits: [...]