Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt Five words from the blurb: Italian, village, children, discovery, scare I bought a copy of this book a couple of years ago after seeing several bloggers rave about it. For some reason I expected it to be chilling and so avoided reading it until I could do so in […]
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The Whisperer – Donato Carrisi
Translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside Five words from the blurb: missing, girls, arms, police, secrets. I hadn’t heard of this book, but spotted it in my library and was sold by the bold lettering on the cover proclaiming it to be: The Italian Literary Thriller Phenomenon The blurb informed me that it had […]
The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano
Translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside Winner of the Premio Strega 2008, Italy’s premier literary award. Paolo Giorgdano is the youngest author to win the Premio Strega – he was just 26 when he was awarded the prize. There has been a lot of publicity around this and so I was keen to see how […]
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Note: All books on this blog are rated on a five star system according to how much I enjoyed them. The ratings are not an indication of writing quality nor how enjoyable you may find reading them.
I am notoriously fussy in my reading tastes, so the star rating will only help if you have a similar reading taste to mine. I tend to abandon books I am not enjoying. 
