https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/ Recent content in All reviews on Marginalia Hugo en All reviews are my own. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-salt-orchard/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-salt-orchard/ A grieving fruit scientist inherits a failing orchard on a salt-burned coast, along with a ledger that seems to predict every bad harvest. Hollis writes weather the way other novelists write villains. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/a-house-of-paper-moths/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/a-house-of-paper-moths/ A bookbinder’s apprentice discovers that the moths eating the library’s oldest folios are rewriting them. Strange, tender and very funny. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/fieldwork/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/fieldwork/ Twelve essays on walking the same three miles of farmland for a year. The best nature writing I’ve read in a decade, and the least preachy. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-glass-cartographer/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-glass-cartographer/ A mapmaker on a generation ship charts corridors that keep moving. Big ideas, small kindnesses, and an ending that earns its hope. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/northern-ledger/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/northern-ledger/ A tax inspector, a frozen harbour town and a set of accounts that don’t add up. A slow-burn mystery with a wonderfully dry narrator. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/winter-pears/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/winter-pears/ Short, plain-spoken poems about a mother’s last winter. I read it in one sitting and then again, slowly, with a pencil. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/under-the-tamarind/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/under-the-tamarind/ Three generations of a Lagos family across one tree’s lifetime. Sprawling, generous and full of food you can almost taste. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-quiet-arithmetic/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-quiet-arithmetic/ A retired maths teacher counts her way through a year of small losses. Beautifully written, if a little too restrained for me. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/letters-to-the-lighthouse/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/letters-to-the-lighthouse/ A novel in letters between a lighthouse keeper and the widow who writes to him by mistake. Gentle, witty, and sad in all the right places. https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-tide-ledger/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://readerly-hugo.listofbooks.net/reviews/the-tide-ledger/ The first Tidewater book: a coastal village, a drowned church and the woman who decides to dig it out. Where the sequence begins.