There is no Outside

Edited by Jessie Kindig et al

A collection of despatches from around the world regarding covid 19. Fascinating take on the global pandemic and changing views across the world in a small snatch of time 7/10

The Mirror and the Light

by Hilary Mantel

The third book in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy and a very long one! The writing is wonderful as you would expect and the characters are wonderful and of course fictional. Do we know more about the real historical figures. Probably not, but then who do we really know. Dominic Cummings may have an endearing side to him but we would never know it. Maybe, in four hundred years time somebody will write a sympathetic novel about his rise to power. Lets hope not. The book was I felt too long by two hundred pages or so but I expect it will still make the Booker shortlist and it was still a good read 8/10