James Salter: Solo Faces
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's Solo Faces, a novel about mountain-climbing. We first meet Vernon Rand as a roofer in California but we soon learn that…
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's Solo Faces, a novel about mountain-climbing. We first meet Vernon Rand as a roofer in California but we soon learn that…
The latest addition to my website is Victor Pelevin's S.N.U.F.F. (S.N.U.F.F.). This is another glorious post-modern romp through Russia and its foibles and, indeed, lots of other places and things…
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's Light Years. This is a very well-written but ultimately rather gloomy tale of failed relationships and failed lives. Viri and Nedra…
The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's The Well Dressed Explorer. The eponymous well-dressed explorer is George Brewster who, when a young teenager falls in love with Nita.…
The latest addition to my website is Jaan Kross's Vastutuulelaev: Bernhard Schmidti roman (Sailing Against the Wind). This is a superb novelised biography of Bernhard Schmidt - despite his name…
The latest addition to my website is Mouloud Mammeri's L’Opium et le Bâton [Opium and the Stick]. This novel reflects Mammeri's own experiences in the FLN. It is an exciting…
English PEN's PEn Presents Initiative has had the excellent idea of presenting a list of six books, which are all very worthy but have not been translated into English (yet).…
The latest addition to my website is Erhard von Büren's Abdankung. Ein Bericht (Epitaph for a Working Man). Von Büren wrote this, his first novel, when he was nearly fifty.…
The latest addition to my website is Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator. This is the first novel on my site from Kashmir. This novel is set in the India-Kashmir conflict and…
The latest addition to my website is Jenny Erpenbeck's Aller Tage Abend (The End of Days). This is a non-whimsical variation on a technique we have seen in Kate Atkinson's…