Ian McEwan: Lessons
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…
Ellis Sharp: Alice in Venice
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…
Robert Irwin: The Limits of Vision
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…
Adelle Stripe & Lias Saoudi: Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure
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…
Robert Irwin: The Runes Have Been Cast
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…
Ellis Sharp: Twenty-Twenty
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…
Sarah Hall: Burntcoat
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,…
Pat Barker: The Women of Troy
The latest addition to my website is Pat Barker's The Women of Troy. This follows on from Barker's previous novel, The Silence of the Girls, where we followed the story…
Michel Butor: L’Emploi du temps (Passing Time)
The latest addition to my website is Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps (Passing Time). I had already read and reviewed this novel (link is to the old review) but a…
Ellis Sharp: Neglected Writer
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Neglected Writer. The eponymous neglected writer may well refer to Sharp himself, a British experimental writer who is still relatively unknown.…