Liam O’Flaherty: Insurrection
The latest addition to my website is Liam O'Flaherty's Insurrection, another of O'Flaherty's novels set against the backdrop of Irish history. The history in this case is the 1916 Easter…
Miguel Gutiérrez: El mundo sin Xóchitl [The World Without Xochitl]
The latest addition to my website is yet another Latin American novel that has not been translated into English (or any other language) - Miguel Gutiérrez' El mundo sin Xóchitl…
César Aira: Las aventuras de Barbaverde [The Adventures of Barbaverde]
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Las aventuras de Barbaverde [The Adventures of Barbaverde]. Yes, I am afraid yet another novel in Spanish that has not been…
Seychelles
The latest addition to my website is Antoine Abel's Coco sec [Dry Coconut], the first novel on my website from Seychelles and, unusually for Seychelles, where English is the predominant…
Luigi Malerba: Il pianeta azzurro [The Blue Planet]
The latest addition to my website is Luigi Malerba's Il pianeta azzurro [The Blue Planet]. One of the joys of reading novels, particularly those from other countries, is getting different…
Man Booker International Prize
I have been following the rumblings around the Man Booker International Prize nominations and thought that I would add my ten cents' worth. Michael Orthofer and Chad Post have raised…