


The books have been acclaimed just about everywhere I’ve looked.

Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy has been on my radar for a long time, not least because each book in the series has won the Hugo Award. Which is why I’ve only just come to read N.K. There just isn’t time to read everything. This despite having bookshelves stuffed full and overflowing. On this visit, time and concentration restraints restricted our attention to only the children’s floor, but nevertheless, I found half a dozen or more books I desperately wanted to read. On a family trip to London, we popped into Waterstones’ (pretty much the UK’s only remaining chain of bookstores) flagship store on Picadilly. I was reminded this week that there are too many good books in the world.
