Andrew Crumey: Beethoven’s Assassins
The latest addition to my website is Andrew Crumey's Beethoven’s Assassins. This is a brilliant novel which is nominally about Beethoven (the composer) but is also about lots of other…
Patrick Langley:The Variations
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Langley's The Variations. The book tells the story of people affected with the gift and the Agnes’s Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which…
Eugene Vodolazkin: Брисбен (Brisbane)
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Брисбен (Brisbane). The story is told in alternating chapters, the first telling of the early life of our hero Gleb Yanovsky,…
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…
Wolf Wondratschek: Selbstbild mit russischem Klavier (Self-Portrait with Russian Piano)
The latest addition to my website is Wolf Wondratschek:'s Selbstbild mit russischem Klavier (Self-Portrait with Russian Piano). The unnamed Austrian narrator meets Suvorin, a retired Russian classical pianist in a…
David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue
The latest addition to my website is David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue. The story starts in January 1967 in London and tells how a group is formed by a Canadian manager…
Margo Glantz: El rastro (The Wake)
The latest addition to my website is Margo Glantz's El rastro (The Wake). This is one of two of her novels that have been translated into English. This novel is…
Andrew Chubb
One the pleasures on our holiday in New Zealand was meeting lots of nice people, such as the people in the bookshops mentioned in the previous post. One other very…