A. M. Homes: May We Be Forgiven
The latest addition to my website is A. M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven, the winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. Most people, including me, thought that Bring…
Sulaiman Addonia: The Consequences of Love
The latest addition to my website is Sulaiman Addonia's The Consequences of Love, the first Eritrean novel on my website. It tells the story of Naser, a young Eritrean, who…
Yesterday’s other literary prize
Yesterday's news in the literary prize world, at least in the English-speaking world, was about the Women's Fiction Prize , won not by Hilary Mantel but by A M Homes.…
Carmen Boullosa: Texas
The latest addition to my website is Carmen Boullosa's Texas. The novel is about an event taking place in 1859 between a Mexican and an US sheriff in a thinly…
Telegraph 500 must-read books
The Telegraph has produced a list of what it calls must-read books. The telegraph did not publish the list online (the link is to someone else who did) but, as…