Terézia Mora: Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent [The Only Man on the Continent]
The latest addition to my website is Terézia Mora's Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent [The Only Man on the Continent]. The novel, told in a mixture of the first…
Lawrence Durrell: The Dark Labyrinth
The latest addition to my website is Lawrence Durrell's The Dark Labyrinth, originally published as Cefalù. It tells the story of a group of English people on a cruise in…
Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze
The latest addition to my website is Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze. This a story about the poet John Clare and, to a much lesser degree, the poet Alfred Tennyson.…
Arnon Grunberg: Fantoompijn (Phantom Pain)
The latest addition to my website is Arnon Grunberg's Fantoompijn (Phantom Pain). This is a very funny book about a writer, Robert G Mehlman, who is arrogant, irresponsible, unfaithful to…
Donna Tartt:The Goldfinch
The latest addition to my website is Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, her third novel in twenty-one years. This one is another large novel - 800 pages - with undertones of…
Hubert Aquin: Prochain épisode (Next Episode)
The latest addition to my website is Hubert Aquin's Prochain épisode (Next Episode), Aquin's first novel and the only one of his works to be translated into English. Aquin wrote…
Antonio Muñoz Molina: El jinete polaco [The Polish Rider]
The latest addition to my website is Antonio Muñoz Molina's El jinete polaco [The Polish Rider]. When it was released in Spain in 1991, it garnered a lot of critical…
Alexis Wright: Plains of Promise
The latest addition to my website is Alexis Wright's Plains of Promise. It is about the (poor) treatment of aborigines, both now and in the 1950s. The first part is…
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries wins Man Booker Prize
With Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries winning the ManBooker Prize, I must apologise to Jim Crace and Ruth Ozeki, as I predicted that Crace would win and Ozeki should win, a…
Sadriddin Aini: Марги судхур (Death of a Money Lender)
The latest addition to my website is Sadriddin Aini's Марги судхур (Death of a Money Lender), the first Tajik novel on my website. It is an amusing novel but with…