Minae Mizumura: 本格小説 新潮社 (A True Novel)
The latest addition to my website is Minae Mizumura's 本格小説 新潮社 (A True Novel). This book has been very well received both in Japan and elsewhere and, perhaps not surprisingly,…
Michael Ondaatje: Anil’s Ghost
The latest addition to my website is Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. This is another superb novel by Ondaatje on war, truth and perspective, this time focussing on the conflict in…
Benjamin Markovits: Childish Loves
The latest addition to my website is Benjamin Markovits' Childish Loves, his third novel about Lord Byron. Unlike his previous two, this one mixes in (semi-)autobiographical details with Byron's story,…
Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts
The latest addition to my website is Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts. I found it a rather contrived novel that did not really work for me. It tells the…
Laos and Cambodia
We have just returned from a holiday in Laos and Cambodia, finally seeing Angkor Wat. I have two novels from Cambodia on my site and two from Laos and, though…
Lawrence Durrell: Tunc
The latest addition to my website is Lawrence Durrell's Tunc. This is the first of a two-part series and tells of a young inventor, Felix Charlock, who invents something that…
Juan Francisco Ferré: Karnaval
The latest addition to my website is Juan Francisco Ferré's Karnaval, a superb novel about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair. Ferré takes the story of Strauss-Kahn and his alleged rape of…
Arnon Grunberg: Tirza
The latest addition to my website is Arnon Grunberg's Tirza, finally published in English this year. This is Grunberg's masterpiece and a first-class piece of writing it is. It tells…
Juan Francisco Ferré: Providence
The latest addition to my website is Juan Francisco Ferré's Providence. Though the book is in Spanish and has not been translated into English, the title is in English as…
Svava Jakobsdóttir: Leigjandinn (The Lodger)
The latest addition to my website is Svava Jakobsdóttir's Leigjandinn (The Lodger). This is a short but superb satire on the US bases in Iceland, which Jakobsdóttir and the left-wing…
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