Bii's Books

In this latest offering in the Canongate myths series, rising Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino addresses the legend of Japanese deities Izana...

As part of the whole process of dealing with addiction, it’s important to get to grips with the scale of the problem. Or so I'm told. Th...

Every year when the MAN Booker prize comes around, I like to take a look at a few of the titles and see if I can predict which book will...

My name is Bii, and I have a problem: I am a compulsive book buyer. I love books. I love reading books and owning books. I love looking at b...

A. M. Holmes came to my attention when she won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize) with May We Be ...

Continuing on the theme of the Canongate myths, Margaret Atwood took the myth of the Odyssey and told it instead from the perspective of Pen...

I took a little time out from the myths after following the strange ‘controversy’ (I call it that loosely; the media made a deal out of it...