Don DeLillo: Zero K
The latest addition to my website is Don DeLillo's Zero K. DeLillo is a Marmite author. Marmite is a disgusting vegetable paste, used in food flavouring or as a sandwich…
The latest addition to my website is Don DeLillo's Zero K. DeLillo is a Marmite author. Marmite is a disgusting vegetable paste, used in food flavouring or as a sandwich…
The latest addition to my website is Max Aub's Campo cerrado (Field of Honour). Aub was born into a French Jewish family but the family moved to Seville when he…
The latest addition to my website is Max Porter's Grief is the Thing With Feathers. This is a highly imaginative book about grief. Dad - we never know his name…
The latest addition to my website is Espido Freire's Soria Moria. This is the story of well-to-do English families living and working in Tenerife as the beginning of the last…
The Library of Congress currently has an exhibition of books people in the USA like reading. It is not an impressive list but then it is not meant to be…
The latest addition to my website is Marlen Haushofer's Die Tapetentür (The Jib Door). The novel is part diary/part third person narrative and tells of Annette, a thirty-year old librarian…
The latest addition to my website is Lisa McInerney's Glorious Heresies. The novel is about what McInerney calls the arse end of Ireland. It is set in a grim part…
The latest addition to my website is Andreas Embirikos' Ἄργώ ἤ Πλούς Αεροστάτου (Argo or Aerostat Flight). Embirikos was a Greek poet who also wrote some prose, including this story.…
The latest addition to my website is Taner Baybars' A Trap for the Burglar. Though I have two Greek-Cypriots on my website, this is the first Turkish-Cypriot, a man noted…
The latest addition to my website is Milena Busquets's También esto pasará (This Too Shall Pass). Busquets is the daughter of well-known (in Spain but not in the English-speaking world)…