The latest addition to my website is Daniele Mencarelli's Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation). This is an autobiographical novel about seven days Mencarelli spent in a mental institution…
The latest addition to my website is Sergei Lebedev's Год кометы (The Year of the Comet). Our unnamed hero is born in the later days of the Soviet Union and…
The latest addition to my website is Ahmed Taibaoui's اختفاء السيد لا أحد The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody). Set in Algeria, the novel is divided into two linked parts. In…
While we have been struggling with the various problems we face such as climate change, Putin and his nasty little war, supply chain issues, inflation, SCOTUS, Trump (possibly) resurgent and,…
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Morgon og kveld (Morning and Evening) . We first meet Johannes as he is being born, the second child of Marta…
The latest addition to my website is Luca Rastello's Piove all'insù (The Rain’s Falling Up. The book is primarily set in the 1970s-80s in Turin, though told from the perspective…
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Naustet (Boathouse). This is an early Fosse novel but still recognisable as part of his exploration of the dark Norwegian soul.…
The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris. As he is ninety, this may well be his last novel and he definitely goes out with a grim…
The latest addition to my website is Hiromi Ito's とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller). She calls it a long poem but we might describe it as an autobiographical novel. On…
The latest addition to my website is Vassily Aksyonov's Апельсины из Марокко [Oranges from Morocco]. This book, Aksyonov's second novel ,was something of a cult book in the Soviet Union,…