Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: اند تھے سر آسما (The Mirror of Beauty)
The latest addition to my website is Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's اند تھے سر آسما (The Mirror of Beauty). This has been hailed as one of the great Urdu novels. It…
The latest addition to my website is Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's اند تھے سر آسما (The Mirror of Beauty). This has been hailed as one of the great Urdu novels. It…
The latest addition to my website is Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy. Mohamed is one of the Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, though she is Somali and this novel is…
They have announced the Man Booker long list for 2013. Every year, I vow that I shall keep away from it and every year I succumb. I have only read…
The latest addition to my website is
In the twentieth century, as far as I was concerned, the most interesting novel writing was coming from the United States. This is not to say that there was not…
The latest addition to my website is Kossi Efoui's La fabrique de cérémonies [The Ceremony Factory], the first Togolese novel on my website. It tells the story of Edgar Fall,…
The latest addition to my website is Jim Crace's Harvest. Crace has said that this is his final novel. It is an excellent novel, telling the story of an unnamed…
The Candidates for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature are always an interesting collection and I was glad to note that I have four of them on my site: César…
The latest addition to my website is Xiaolu Guo's 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. Though nominally written in English, it was in fact her first novel published in Chinese.…
I have to confess that we read the Telegraph at the weekend, primarily for the crossword, a Saturday morning treat, Helen Yemm's gardening column and, of course, to get a…