Paper trail by rumaan alam

A year without reading

Homework: A Memoir Geoff Dyer (Canongate, £20) ...

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: His Private Revelations ...

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

IT was one of those conversations on the bus that makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was saying to her companion