Eleanor Catton: The Luminaries
The latest addition to my website is Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. It is on this year's Man Booker longlist. Despite weighing in at 830 pages, it is not the longest…
The latest addition to my website is Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. It is on this year's Man Booker longlist. Despite weighing in at 830 pages, it is not the longest…
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Scott's Follow Me. This is another first-class novel from Scott, telling the story of Sally Werner (she has several pseudonyms), a woman…
The latest addition to my website is Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin. This is a superb novel, with its central theme revolving around the other key event involving…
The latest addition to my website is Colum McCann's TransAtlantic. This novel was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. The novel is in two parts. The first part tells…
The most recent addition to my website is Arnon Grunberg's Arnon Grunberg: Blauwe maandagen (Blue Mondays). This was Grunberg's first novel, written for a bet and selling 70,000 copies in…
The latest addition to my website is Eleanor Catton's Rehearsal. This is a superb debut novel about performance and imagined performance, about the power of gossip and power in relationships,…
Just noted that the Portuguese writer Urbano Tavares Rodrigues died today. None of his books has been translated into English and, as far as I can see, all the sites…
The latest addition to my website is Georges Ngal's Giambatista Viko ou Le Viol du discours africain [Giambatista Viko or the Rape of African Discourse]. Ngal's first novel is about…
The latest addition to my website is Ross Raisin's God's Own Country (US: Out Backward). It is a story told by Sam Marsdyke, a solitary eighteen-year old who lives on…
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Kavenna's . This is a novel about childbirth. There are four separate but linked stories about childbirth. The first is set in…