Tue, 20 Dec 2022 04:06:21 +0000

I’m looking back on my reading this year. I started off with Jonathan Bate’s biography of Shakespeare, The Soul of the Age. It’s a smart deep-dive into Shakespeares world, careful of too much idle speculation. There were some great throw-backs including Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast. A bit of a precursor to White Lotus. You know from the outset what the catastrophe will be and that there will be deaths, but who? A cast of juicy characters and mysterious back stories keeps you guessing.