American Men of Letters
Alfred A Knopf have posted a Facebook page, laughingly entitled American Men of Letters. I say laughingly as if their five American Men of Letters (they presumably mean United States)…
Rupert Thomson: Secrecy
The latest addition to my website is Rupert Thomson's latest novel Secrecy. Unusually for Thomson, it is set in the past - seventeenth century Florence - and involves several real…
Chinghiz Gusseinov: Магомед, Мамед, Мамиш (Mahomet, Mahmed, Mamish)
The latest addition to my website is Chinghiz Gusseinov's Магомед, Мамед, Мамиш (Mahomet, Mahmed, Mamish), an Azerbaijani novel, the first one from that country on my website. While certainly not…
Margaret Thatcher in literature
I shall not be shedding any tears for Margaret Thatcher. I think that she did untold harm to this country and the day she was kicked out by her own…
Emyr Humphreys: Outside the House of Baal
The latest addition to my website is Emyr Humphreys' Outside the House of Baal. This is what Humphreys calls a long novel,not only in number of words but also because…
Google fail
While writing up my review on François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese; later: Therese Desqueyroux), I decided to check whether Google, in its wisdom, had indexed my previous entries on Mauriac.…
François Mauriac: Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese; later: Therese Desqueyroux)
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese; later: Therese Desqueyroux). This is unusual for Mauriac, in that the heroine has committed a criminal act -…
Kate Atkinson: Life After Life
The latest addition to my website is Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. This is a wonderful novel, a sort of cross between Ken Grimwood's Replay and the film Groundhog Day.…