Ellis Sharp: Pig Tale
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Pig Tale. This is a very witty book, damning human foibles, told from the point of view of a five year…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Pig Tale. This is a very witty book, damning human foibles, told from the point of view of a five year…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Month of the Drowned Dog. This is a decidedly postmodern novel, as we might expect from Sharp. Sharp, the author, tells…
The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Coe's Bournville. This might be described as a state of the nation novel, as we follow an extended family from VE Day…
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Lessons. This is McEwan's longest novel and tells the story of Roland Baines, his friends and family from World War II…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Alice in Venice. Alice Short is on holiday in Venice to visit the varioius sites where the film Don’t Look Now…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Irwin's The Limits of Vision. Marcia is an English housewife seemingly obsessed with cleanliness. When her vacuum cleaner breaks down, just before…
The latest addition to my website is Adelle Stripe & Lias Saoudi's Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. This book is a fictional biography and…
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…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Twenty-Twenty. This is a diary, influenced by Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage (Anniversaries), which he reads and comments on, in the early part…
The latest addition to my website is Sarah Hall's Burntcoat. Our heroine is Edith Harknesss. We follow her life from when she was ten and her mother, a successful novelist,…