Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading

Hello and welcome to this week's blog. Here are some highlights from last week's thread. elinwyn89 writes : Reading Great Expectations for the first time, quickly making its way onto my list of favorite books. Thank goodness that I'm reading it on my Kindle though or I'm sure I would have been put off by the size of it. Superb. kniphofia says : I'm fascinated by The Bellwether Revivals at the moment, one of those books you don't want to end. One of the best novels I've read in a while. Bacaberylaisne writes: Celebrating the octave of 23 April with Muriel Bradbrook's "Shakespeare The Poet in His World", the second-best book on Shakespeare after Kermode's "Shakespeare's Language". tenuousfives reminds us that Hilary Mantel's eagerly anticipated follow up to Booker winner Wolf Hall , is out soon. Bringing up the Bodies has already received a very positive review from James Wood in the the New Yorker , but tenuousfives remembers the concentration the book required: Wolf Hall gave me pause, at times. Am I following this? Who is this character now? Who said that? Suffolk? Norfolk? Cromwell? But when I got into it, it was rewarding and brilliant. Cromwell is a superb character- I like to think of him as an entire fox hunt rolled into one leviathan of a man- the learning, social awareness and grace of the upper class rider, the loyalty and tenacity of the bloodhound, the cunning and evasiveness of the fox and the bravery and blooded-mindedness of a saboteur! If you would like to tell us what you're reading and share recommendations, join the thread below, or search for the book page and write a review. You never know, it might be picked out for special mention in our weekly readers' review blog and reward you with a free book. As frustratedartist wrote: The reader reviews are a nice feature, because they allow readers to adjust the balance of the site to reflect their own reading interests, which aren't always the books that are getting a lot of press coverage. Here are some of the books we will be covering this week, subject to last minute changes. Non-fiction • The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited by Stephen Armstrong • My Sister Rosalind Franklin by Jenifer Glyn • In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland • Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Suprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg • The Juice by Jay McInerney • If You Sit Very Still by Marian Partington Fiction • In One Person by John Irvine • Galore by Michael Crummey • Light of Amsterdam by David Park • Seven Years by Peter Stamm • Flight by Adam Thorpe