Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me. As the title implies, this is about robots. Set in an alternative 1982 where Thatcher has lost the…
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me. As the title implies, this is about robots. Set in an alternative 1982 where Thatcher has lost the…
The latest addition to my website is Padraic Colum's The Flying Swans. Colum is better-known as a poet, playwright and recounter of Irish folk tales so this book - one…
The latest addition to my website is Ali Smith's Spring. This is another superb novel from Smith in her four-seasons tetralogy. The key theme in this book is the harsh…
The latest addition to my website is Dritëro Agolli's Komisari Memo (The Bronze Bust). It is nice to know that Ismail Kadare is not the only Albanian novelist translated into…
The latest addition to my website is Paolo Maurensig's Il diavolo nel cassetto (A Devil Comes to Town). This is a tongue-in-cheek fable about a remote Swiss village, where everyone…
The latest addition to my website is Dawn Powell's The Golden Spur. This is another very witty novel from Powell - her final novel - set, of course in New…
The latest addition to my website is Pola Oloixarac's Las constelaciones oscuras (Dark Constellations). This novel tells the story of stunning scientific discoveries and inventions, in the field of botany,…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's La cena (Dinner). This is Aira's zombie novel. The narrator, a sixty-year old, never married bankrupt man, living with his mother…
The latest addition to my website is Paul Gadenne's Rue profonde [The Deep Street]. This is strange, short novel about an unnamed poet, living in a garret in Paris, who…
The latest addition to my website is Mario Benedetti's Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a Broken Mirror). This is only the second of Benedetti's novels to appear in…