Riga/Copenhagen
We have just returned from our continuing tour of East European capitals - the third this year and the fifth in the past two years - with a visit to…
Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History
The latest addition to my website is Rabih Alameddine's The Angel of History. As with his first novel, Koolaids, the main theme of this book is about how the AIDS…
Hwang Jungeun: 百의 그림자 (One Hundred Shadows)
The latest addition to my website is Hwang Jungeun's 百의 그림자 (One Hundred Shadows). This is a very original work, which has had considerable success in South Korea, about very…
Rabih Alameddine: Koolaids
The latest addition to my website is Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids. This is a first-class novel about two forgotten (according to the author) wars: the The Lebanese Civil War and the…
Eimear McBride: The Lesser Bohemians
The latest addition to my website is Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemians. Many critics raved about her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women’s…
Amélie Nothomb: Riquet à la houppe [Riquet with the Tuft]
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Riquet à la houppe [Riquet with the Tuft]. This is a modern updating of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Riquet with the…
Ian McEwan: Nutshell
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Nutshell. The novel is narrated by an unborn foetus, The foetus' mother, Trudy, is separated from his father, John, a poet…
Ivan Vladislavic: The Restless Supermarket
The latest addition to my website is Ivan Vladislavic's The Restless Supermarket. This is a very funny story about a retired proofreader, Aubrey Tearle, who is fighting a losing battle…
Michael Hughes: The Countenance Divine
The latest addition to my website is Michael Hughes' The Countenance Divine. This is an apocalyptic vision of England with the story told in four periods. In the first period…
Wright Morris: The Home Place
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The Home Place. This is an affectionate though not too sentimental autobiographical portrait of the return of Clyde Muncy to his…
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