End of the year review 2021
A second covid year, and undoubtedly not the last has meant, for me, much less travel and none abroad and much less going out - I cannot remember the last…
A second covid year, and undoubtedly not the last has meant, for me, much less travel and none abroad and much less going out - I cannot remember the last…
The latest addition to my website is Juan Andrés Ferreira's Mil de fiebre [A Temperature of a Thousand Degrees]. This is a very long novel about two young Uruguayan men…
The latest addition to my website is Michel Houellebecq's Anéantir [Annihilate]. This is a fairly typical Houellebecq novel. It opens in late 2026. There are three main plot lines: a…
\ The latest addition to my website is Ghazi Algosaibi's شقة الحرية (An Apartment Called Freedom). This novel takes place between 1956 and 1961, primarily in Cairo and follows a…
The latest addition to my website is Muhsin al-Ramli's حدائق الرئيةة (The President’s Gardens). The novel tells the stories of three close Iraqi male friends. At the beginning of the…
The latest addition to my website is Ismail Kadare's Muzgu i perendive te stepes (Twilight of the Eastern Gods). Kadare spent some time in the 1950s in the Soviet Union,…
The latest addition to my website is Almudena Grandes' El corazón helado (The Frozen Heart). This is a long and complicated novel set mainly in the present but very much…
The latest addition to my website is Ramiro Sanchiz's Trashpunk. Trashpunk, a term coined by Sanchiz, is the developing country version of cyberpunk. This book consists of several stories but…
The latest addition to my website is Jana Bodnárová's Náhrdelník/Obojok (Necklace/Choker). This novel tells the stories of two Slovak women - Sara and Iboja - who meet in their hometown…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Irwin's The Runes Have Been Cast. This is a very funny spoof campus novel/spoof ghost story, set in the early 1960s. Two…