Around the world in 50,000 pages

Non-fiction:Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary. Explorer y Ann Morgan Harvill Secker, €21.50 Reviewed by Brendan Daly

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes: detectives in China were urge to study his methods after the books were translated
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes: detectives in China were urge to study his methods after the books were translated

Ann Morgan set herself a challenge back in 2012: to read one book from all 196 independent countries in the world.

Spurred on by the realisation that her reading diet consisted almost exclusively of British and American writers, Morgan set up a blog (ayearofreadingtheworld.com) to help atone for her literary sins.

Morgan appealed to readers to ...