Adults In The Room by Yanis Varoufakis
How I wish Teresa May had read this book before she entered into her doomed dealings with the EU. Yanis Varoufakis’s account of his negotiations with the Eurogroup, the collection of EU member Finance Ministers during his five months as FM of Greece is as gripping as any thriller, as the stakes are so high, […]
The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
A deeply honest and personal account by an addictive personality who decides to pull her socks up, it’s oddly inspirational, even though I was already well aware of the central message that she successfully (and repeatedly!) hammers home: that we are all guilty of ‘buying stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have to […]
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson
While reading this book, I could imagine the author making all his points while propping up a bar, a little like Viz Magazine’s ‘Most Ill-Informed Columnist’, getting more ‘lemme tell you something…’ and ‘you gotta hear this…’ as the empties mount up. This is not all bad – while the book is extremely light on […]
The Museum of You by Carys Bray
I saved this book up for my holiday and was looking forward to savouring it as I absolutely loved A Song For Issy Bradley, one of those rare books that remain with you long after the reading is over. This one has all the right ingredients: gorgeous, understated writing, her usual flair for description, believable […]