Esther Tusquets: ¡Bingo!
The most recent addition to my website is Esther Tusquets' ¡Bingo!. This was to be Tusquets' last novel and, sadly, it has not been translated into English or, indeed, any…
The most recent addition to my website is Esther Tusquets' ¡Bingo!. This was to be Tusquets' last novel and, sadly, it has not been translated into English or, indeed, any…
The latest addition to my website is Claude Simon's L'Acacia (The Acacia). This is a book about war. In twelve chapters, the book jumps backwards and forwards between World War…
The latest addition to my website is Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba's Тунгалаг Тамир [The Clear Tamir]. This is the first Mongolian novel on my site. It tells the story of Mongolia from…
The shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction was announced and nearly got lost in the shuffle, as it was announced the day after Granta’s Best Young British Novelists list.…
Last week saw the issue of the very wonderful Review of Contemporary Fiction's The Future of British Fiction, edited by Jennifer Hodgson and Patricia Waugh. It is dated Fall 2012…
Being away last week, I was able to peruse the Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4 at leisure and let others more competent than I comment on it. If…
The latest addition to my website is J M Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus. This book is not about the childhood of Jesus, except, perhaps, very tangentially. What it is…
We spent the last week in Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor, including walking up to Black a Tor Copse (photo left), which we had seen in the BBC's Secret…
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Le noeud de vipères (Vipers' Tangle; later: The Knot of Vipers). It is considered one of Mauriac's best novel, a judgement…
The latest addition to my website is Sarah A. Al Shafei's Yummah, the first Bahraini novel on the site. It is more of a memoir, a tribute to her grandmother…