A reading year | May 2026

Modern Life 1 Minute

Ajay Chowdhury – The Shadow

Elizabeth Strout – The Things We Never Say

BD Spargo – Witch Hunt

Miriam Ella – Moses & the Health and Safety Commandments

Jay Winter – Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European cultural history

Kathleen Stock – Do Not Go Gentle

Geoff Dyer – The Missing of The Somme

Naguib Mahfouz – I Found Myself . . . The Last Dreams

Robert Seethaler – The Last Movement

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