The nationality issue
The last two books I have added to my site have raised issues about nationalities, as I have defined them on my site. Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go raised issues…
The last two books I have added to my site have raised issues about nationalities, as I have defined them on my site. Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go raised issues…
The latest addition to my website is Adem Demaçi's Gjarpinjtë e gjakut [The Snakes of the Blood], the first Kosovan novel on my website. Sadly, this novel is not available…
Real people have been the basis for literary characters for almost as long as there have been novels. Someone has even written a book on it. More recently, we have…
The latest addition to my website is Taiye Selasi's
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Scott's The Closest Possible Union. The novel is set almost entirely on a slave ship and tells the story of Tom Beauchamp,…
The latest addition to my website is Ned Beauman's The Teleportation Accident. It's not a science fiction novel, more a pastiche of science fiction, US noir, particularly 1930s noir, conspiracy…
The latest addition to my website is Tahmima Anam's The Good Muslim. It tells the story of a feminist doctor in Bangladesh during the period immediately after independence in 1971…
The latest addition to my website is Naomi Alderman's The Lessons. Naomi Alderman is one of the Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Though this novel, an Oxford University and after…
On Monday and Tuesday, Sotheby's in London held an auction for English PEN of books by well-known authors, with annotations by the authors. The organiser of the auction, book dealer…
Though we are only just over twelve years into the 21st century (yes, I can do the maths; the 21st century started on 1 January 2001), ABC has produced its…