On reading novels in an appropriate place
The picture on the left is Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand, where I am at the moment. Purely by chance the book I am reading is Paolo…
Anna Smaill: The Chimes
The latest addition to my website is Anna Smaill's The Chimes. I have been sitting on this for several months but am inspired to read it as it made The…
New Zealand
I have just returned from four weeks in New Zealand. There were two reasons for going. The first, of course, was to escape the English January weather, though this plan…
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries wins Man Booker Prize
With Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries winning the ManBooker Prize, I must apologise to Jim Crace and Ruth Ozeki, as I predicted that Crace would win and Ozeki should win, a…
Eleanor Catton: The Luminaries
The latest addition to my website is Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. It is on this year's Man Booker longlist. Despite weighing in at 830 pages, it is not the longest…
Eleanor Catton: Rehearsal
The latest addition to my website is Eleanor Catton's Rehearsal. This is a superb debut novel about performance and imagined performance, about the power of gossip and power in relationships,…
New Zealand
I haven't posted for a while as I have been on holiday to New Zealand. See obligatory pictures of Milford Sound and a kaka bird below. The purpose of the…