City in the City

A very unusual book that I couldn't work out at once. I couldn't work out whether I was reading a crime fiction novel or a science fiction novel, and concluded that it was both. A very clever idea revolving around two cities that exist side by side, but a citizen of one city has to 'unsee' the other even if the other city is on the same street.  The story revolves around a police detective who has to solve a murder, the body appeared in his city but the crime took place in the other city. A very interesting concept, although I took a long while to get the hang of the novel, but once I did, I was hooked and finished the book quite quickly as I couldn't put it down. Will have to attempt another Mieville again at some other point.

Fugitive Pieces

I loved this book!!! A very clever look at the second world war and how memories have different impacts on people. Beautifully written and very poetic (I have since learned that this was Anne Michaels' first novel and that prior to this she was a poet so this makes sense). I've already recommended this book to someone else, and to be honest I can't believe that this novel didn't make my 1000 to read before you die list. I thought that it was a really interesting book and looked at the effect of WWII on people in Greece and Canada, countries that I haven't really read about before.