Gerald Murnane: Barley Patch
The latest addition to my website is Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch. This is a superb work from one of Australia's foremost novelists about the art of fiction. The anonymous narrator…
The latest addition to my website is Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch. This is a superb work from one of Australia's foremost novelists about the art of fiction. The anonymous narrator…
The latest addition to my website is James Barke's Major Operation. Barke is a Scottish novelist who has sadly disappeared from view, though Canongate did reissue his Land of the…
The latest addition to my website is Irenosen Okojie's Butterfly Fish. This is a very accomplished and colourful debut novel by a Nigerian-born English writer. It tells the story of…
There is a bit of a furore going on at the moment following Janet Maslin's Cool Books for Hot Summer Days, her summer reading recommendations in the New York Times.…
The latest addition to my website is Yuri Andrukhovych's Перверзія (Perverzion). This is a wonderful post-modern romp, telling the story of what may be the last week in the life…
In the Independent today, Alice Jones says that this year is going to be the year of the mega-novel. Jones is not entirely happy with this, and is still struggling…
The latest addition to my website is Anne Enright's The Green Road. Enright is definitely making a claim to be the best living Irish novelist and this novel will only…
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Sardines. This is similar to many of his other novels in that we have a brave person, in this case a…
The latest addition to my website is Mirta Yáñez's Sangra por la herida (Bleeding Wound). This an excellent Cuban novel, narrated by twelve different narrators, most of whom live in…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' El mal de Montano (Montano's Malady). This a wonderfully post-modern novel, following on from Bartleby y compañía (Bartleby & Co.), a…