W V Tilsley: Other Ranks
A few years go I read W V Tilsley's Other Ranks. This is an account of a soldier in Word War I. It was originally published in 1931 and never…
A few years go I read W V Tilsley's Other Ranks. This is an account of a soldier in Word War I. It was originally published in 1931 and never…
I have recently returned from a two week holiday in Ireland and while the trip was primarily scenic rather than literary, we did visit a couple of places with literary…
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Соловьёв и Ларионов (Solovyov and Larionov). This is Vodolazkin's first novel (though not the first to appear in English) and a…
The latest addition to my website is José María Arguedas'Todas las sangres [All the Bloodlines]. This is José María Arguedas' longest book and goes into great detail about a story…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El llanto [Crying], one of the many of his works that sadly has not been translated into English. This one is…
The latest addition to my website is Hiromi Kawakami's ニシノユキヒコの恋と冒険 (UK: The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino; US: The Ten Loves of Nishino). This is another clever novel from Kawakami…
The latest addition to my website is Uwe Tellkamp's Der Eisvogel [The Kingfisher]. Wiggo Ritter is a lost soul. His father is a ruthless banker and Wiggo hates everything he…
The latest addition to my website is Christophe Bernard's La Bête Creuse [The Hollow Beast]. This is a very long, very funny novel, written in broad Quebecois dialect, about a…