Gervasio Posadas: El mentalista de Hitler The Clairvoyant
The latest addition to my website is Gervasio Posadas' El mentalista de Hitler The Clairvoyant. This is the story of the very real Erik Jan Hanussen. He was an Austrian…
Chris McCabe: Dedalus
The latest addition to my website is Chris McCabe's Dedalus. McCabe is a modern poet but he has written a novel which is a homage to James Joyce, a sequel…
Eric Lane: Dante Alighieri’s Publishing Company
The latest addition to my website is Eric Lane's Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company. This book is a witty and colourful account of how Eric Lane, publisher of Dedalus Books, founded…
Mia Couto: O Bebedor de horizonte (The Drinker of Horizons)
The latest addition to my website is Mia Couto's O Bebedor de horizonte (The Drinker of Horizons). This is the final book in his Sands of the Emperor trilogy about…
Ellis Sharp: Concrete Impressions
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Concrete Impressions. This is a wickedly funny post-modern satire, bashing non-post-modern novelists, politicians, the upwardly mobile rich, Zionists, the media, the…
Mia Couto: A Espada e a Azagaia (The Sword and the Spear)
The latest addition to my website is Mia Couto's A Espada e a Azagaia (The Sword and the Spear). This the second book in his Sands of the Emperor trilogy…
Oksana Lutsyshyna: Іван і Феба (Ivan and Phoebe)
The latest addition to my website is Oksana Lutsyshyna's Іван і Феба (Ivan and Phoebe). This novel primarily tells the story of Ivan but, to a lesser degree, of Phoebe,…
Arnon Grunberg: Goede mannen (Good Men)
The latest addition to my website is Arnon Grunberg's Goede mannen (Good Men). Geniek Janowski is Dutch, albeit with a Polish father and German mother. Because of his father he…
Jan Carson : The Fire Starters
The latest addition to my website is Jan Carson 's The Fire Starters. This novel is set in Belfast sixteen years after The Troubles. The local authorities have restricted the…
Michael Ferrier: François, portrait d’un absent (François, Portrait Of An Absent Friend)
The latest addition to my website is Michael Ferrier's François, portrait d’un absent (François, Portrait Of An Absent Friend). The eponymous absent friend is François Christophe, very much a real…