Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
The latest addition to my website is Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. This book has been shortlisted for the US National Book Award, with the winner to be announced…
The latest addition to my website is Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. This book has been shortlisted for the US National Book Award, with the winner to be announced…
The latest addition to my website is Jorge Franco's El mundo de afuera [The World Outside], the winner of the prestigious Spanish Alfaguara Prize this year. This is an excellent…
We have already had the Prix Femina - Haitian novelist Yanick Lahens won with Bain de lune, and the Prix Médicis - Antoine Volodine won with Terminus radieux and today…
After a longer wait than usual, they have announced the shortlist for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards. The fiction shortlist is: A World of Other People, Steven Carroll (HarperCollins)…
They have announced that Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North has won this year's Man Booker Prize. To my surprise, I have read the winner. It certainly…
The latest addition to my website is Lutz Seiler's Kruso, part of my feeble effort to read shortlisted books for this year's book prizes, other than the Man Booker. This…
Lutz Seiler has won this year's German Book Prize. He is known as a poet and this is his first novel, a modern-day Robinson Crusoe. I hope to have a…
I am not terribly impressed with this year's shortlist: Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North Karen Joy Fowler:…
This year's Man Booker Prize longlist was announced today. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking) The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto &…
I have now read all the novels on the Baileys Womens Prize for fiction shortlist. As a reminder, they are; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah Hannah Kent: Burial Rites Jhumpa Lahiri:…