Michel Houellebecq: Anéantir [Annihilate]
The latest addition to my website is Michel Houellebecq's Anéantir [Annihilate]. This is a fairly typical Houellebecq novel. It opens in late 2026. There are three main plot lines: a…
The latest addition to my website is Michel Houellebecq's Anéantir [Annihilate]. This is a fairly typical Houellebecq novel. It opens in late 2026. There are three main plot lines: a…
The latest addition to my website is Uwe Tellkamp's Der Eisvogel [The Kingfisher]. Wiggo Ritter is a lost soul. His father is a ruthless banker and Wiggo hates everything he…
The latest addition to my website is Ramon Saizarbitoria's Martutene (Martutene). This is a mammoth (816 pages) Basque novel, that has claims to being the Great Basque Novel. Primarily, it…
The latest addition to my website is Antal Szerb's A királyné nyaklánca (The Queen’s Necklace). According to Szerb's introduction to the book, this is not a novel but then, in…
The Syndicat de la librairie française (the French booksellers' association) has put out a reading list of books to read following the terrorist atacks in Paris. The list is, of…