Mircea Cărtărescu: Orbitor Vol 1, Aripa stângă (Blinding – The Left Wing)
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Orbitor Vol 1, Aripa stângă (Blinding – The Left Wing), the first book in a trilogy (and the only one of…
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Orbitor Vol 1, Aripa stângă (Blinding – The Left Wing), the first book in a trilogy (and the only one of…
The latest addition to my website is Yuz Aleshkovsky's Николай Николаевич (Nikolai Nikolaevich) and Маскировка (Camouflage), published in the same volume in both Russian and English. Both are distinguished by…
The latest addition to my website is Shi Tiesheng's 我的丁一之旅 (My Travels in Ding Yi). This was Shi Tiesheng's final book and he packed a lot into it. The story…
While we had visited nearby Charleston, home of the Bloomsbury set a couple of times, we had never visited nearby (six miles distance) Monk's House. till now Virginia and Leonard…
The latest addition to my website is Andrej Nikolaidis'The Olcinium Trilogy ((Sin (The Son), Dolazak (The Coming), Devet (Till Kingdom Come)). This is a superb trilogy of novels, related but…
The latest addition to my website is Eduardo Mendoza's El misterio de la cripta embrujada (Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt). The novel, Mendoza's second, is nominally a detective story. However,…
During our recent travels in Ireland, we visited Birr Castle, a beautiful castle in wonderful grounds and well worth the visit. The castle is owned and still partially occupied by…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Les Boulevards de ceinture (Ring Roads). This is the third novel in Modiano's Occupation Trilogy. The narrator, probably called Serge, a…
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…