What first intrigued me about Yangsze Choo’s The Night Tiger was its Malaysian setting and that its main character was Malaysian-Chinese. I’m half Irish and half Malaysian-Chinese, and the books …
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It is no secret that we care deeply about teen and YA books at Dubray, and love to talk about our favourites. Our Teen Book of the Month highlights many …
If I had to name just one book that best captured the spirit of the age in which it was written, it would have to be The Great Gatsby, published …
Lanny will haunt you like the sweetest, most melancholic dream. After a few initial pages of explosive typeface and nature narration one quickly falls into step with the pace of …
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”—Emilie Buchwald I love The Gruffalo as much as my little one, but once you can recite it from memory, it’s …
If I were to rate We Are Blood and Thunder on a baked-goods-scale, ranging from a stale cracker all the way up to a salt caramel dark chocolate torte, I …
My decision to walk the Camino de Santiago this year is more an accident than a life ambition — Italy was my first choice, a trek in Trentino in northern …
‘I don’t know why he can’t get his books from the library,’ says his wife, who doesn’t see the point of buying books at all. What she fails to notice …
Imagine yourself in a warehouse of books, a vast Borgesian warehouse that stretches on indefinitely in all directions. There are no lights in the warehouse; all you have is a …
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