Ali Smith: The Accidental
The latest addition to my website is Ali Smith's The Accidental. This takes as its theme a partially dysfunctional family: mother, two children, father (second marriage) who are disrupted by…
The latest addition to my website is Ali Smith's The Accidental. This takes as its theme a partially dysfunctional family: mother, two children, father (second marriage) who are disrupted by…
The latest addition to my website is Eduardo Halfon's Duelo (Mourning). This is a book about memory and recovering memory. The narrator - called Eduardo Halfon - carries out two…
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Eszkoriál [Escorial]. This book follows the life of Francis Borgia, descendant of those Borgias, later Director-General of the Society of Jesus…
The latest addition to my website is Richard Powers' The Overstory. This is another first-class, long and complex novel from Powers. Its subject is trees, particularly the idea that trees…
The latest addition to my website is Scholastique Mukasonga's Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile). The novel tells the story of an elite girls' school in the highlands…
The latest addition to my website is Jorge Barón Biza's El desierto y su semilla (The Desert and Its Seed). This is a thinly disguised autobiographical novel, telling of the…
The latest addition to my website is Claudio Magris' Non luogo a procedere (Blameless). This novel continues Magris' favourite theme of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. The unnamed protagonist…
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Melancholia I (Melancholy). This book is about a real person, the Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig, though there is no indication in…
The latest addition to my website is Glen James Brown's Ironopolis. This is a superb first novel, set in a sink estate in the North of England. We follow seven…
The latest addition to my website is Mieko Kawakami's ミス・アイスサンドイッチ (Ms Ice Sandwich). This is a charming novel about a ten year old boy, an only child whose father died…