End of the year review 2017
Like many of you, I have been browsing the best of the year lists. (If you missed them, Large-Hearted Boy has a huge list.) As regards best novels, I have…
Like many of you, I have been browsing the best of the year lists. (If you missed them, Large-Hearted Boy has a huge list.) As regards best novels, I have…
The latest addition to my website is Ali Smith's Like. This is Ali Smith's first novel and a very accomplished novel it is. It tells two related stories. Amy was…
The latest addition to my website is Daniel Kehlmann's Tyll [Till]. It is based on the legend of the trickster Till Eulenspiegel though Kehlmann has moved him from his traditional…
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Széljegyzetek Casanovához (Marginalia on Casanova). This is the first in series of ten novels (incomplete at the time of the author's…
The latest addition to my website is Luis Sagasti's Bellas artes (Fireflies). This is an amazing book from new publisher Charco Press in which Sagasti ruminates on creativity, suicide, how…
The latest addition to my website is Alisa Ganieva's Жених и невеста (Bride and Groom). As the title tells us, the story is, to a great extent, about marriage. Patya…
The latest addition to my website is Paul Murray's The Mark and the Void. This is a hilarious satire on the banking crisis of 2008 onwards and follows the story…
This provocative headline comes from an article by Irish writer, John Boyne. It is, of course, absolute nonsense. Women are not better writers than men. I can only assume The…
The latest addition to my website is Clemens J. Setz's Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre [The Hour Between Woman and Guitar]. This is a monumental novel - 1021 pages…
The latest addition to my website is Kamel Daoud's Zabor ou Les psaumes [Zabor or The Psalms]. This novel, by the author of Meursault, contre-enquête (Meursault, Counter Investigation), is a…