A marvelous book that is cleverly futuristic without being science
fiction and deeply human with the lightest touch in writing style.
What
impressed me is the pure agnosticism of the story, where no location or time is
given, no background about the past and future is clearly given, and yet we
know and understand what happens and why.
Ishiguro brings a fresh look at the
relationship between man and AI through Klara’s innocent eyes, and the whole
story becomes an ensemble of magic realism, blurring the stark reality of
future human life and the blissful hope of fairy tales.
*The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021* *A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*
'A delicate, haunting story' The Washington Post 'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.' The Times
'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges…
A funny, comic, and sarcastic book; one I haven’t read in years.
Meet
Don Tillman, a nerdy professor of genetics with some good looks and a very strict
way of life, from his schedule to his dialogues with fellow humans.
He decides
one day to set up a profiling questionnaire to find the perfect woman. But when
Rosie walks into his office, Don’s world of rational precision and mathematical
equations starts tumbling down for good and bad reasons.
A romantic comedy
like no other with a very non-linear progress that keeps you wandering what
happens in between chuckles. It is a story that challenges stereotypes at every
end of the spectrum and reminds us that everyone can be accepted for who they
are, no matter how strange.
The international bestselling romantic comedy “bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor,” (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.
The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her…
Non-fiction history books are hardly exciting, and I don’t assume this book will be a hit with everyone. As a history buff, I’ve never been a fan of
the dark era of the Anglo-Saxons, known for its lack of written evidence and
relatively unknown characters that made the England we know today.
Yet, Marc
Morris makes this book an over-arching narrative of what may have likely
happened, spanning 500 years and combining historical, archaeological, and
literary evidence. It is a great example of how to write interesting
non-fiction without the tedium associated with historians and archaeologists.
For the first time in so long, I learned new historical facts that made me
re-consider many assumptions about the Normans, the Romans, the Britons, and of
course, the Anglo-Saxons.
'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book' DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES
'A big gold bar of delight' SPECTATOR
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. In this sweeping and original history, renowned historian Marc Morris separates the truth from the legend and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.
'Marc Morris is a genius of medieval narrative' IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's…
A couple decides to buy a
house in the past. A man desperately delivers a letter on the day mail is
discontinued for good. A patient is unable to forget at all, and another one
gets too close for comfort with her doctor for all the wrong reason.
These are just a few
of the seven absurdly real short stories collected in this anthology, where I
wanted to take readers to new places, to unexplored territories of the mind.
They are seven stories of tomorrow, but may as well be seven stories about human traits we still recognise. From social
interactions and council matters to the burden of mortgages and the changes to
city life, they remind us who we are and what we take for granted.
