Amélie Nothomb: Ni d’Ève Ni d’Adam (Tokyo Fiancée)
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Ni d'Ève Ni d'Adam (Tokyo Fiancée), another quirky novel from the Belgian author. This one, like many of her other books,…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Ni d'Ève Ni d'Adam (Tokyo Fiancée), another quirky novel from the Belgian author. This one, like many of her other books,…
The latest addition to my website is Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. This is one of those quirky English novels about a seemingly normal and boring Englishman,…
The latest addition to my website is Cezar Petrescu's Cezar Petrescu: Întunecare (Gathering Clouds), another early twentieth century Romanian novel. This one was originally three volumes but, sadly, only the…
The latest addition to my website is Emyr Humphreys' The Little Kingdom. Wales has not fared as well as, for example, Scotland, in recognition of its literature in recent years,…
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Le Baiser au lépreux (A Kiss for the Leper). I first read Mauriac many, many years ago. Indeed, Le Mystère Frontenac…
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov's Железная Дорога (Railway), a novel from Uzbekistan. Ismailov actually lives in London and works for the BBC, having left Uzbekistan in…
The latest addition to my website is Timur Vermes' Er ist wieder da [He's Back]. This book has had considerable success in Germany and also caused a lot of controversy.…
It has been widely reported that Amazon has been granted a patent for selling used ebooks. While the idea is interesting it has, as some commentators have noted, raised a…
Amazon is not doing well in the British press, because it is evading UK tax by claiming that it is a Luxembourg company. The Luxembourg office employs 134 people while…
The latest addition to my website is Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us). This had considerable success in Germany, as it was one of the earlier novels about…