Statistics
I have just updated the statistics for my website. England sadly remains top in terms of number of books, and the USA in terms of number of authors. I say…
I have just updated the statistics for my website. England sadly remains top in terms of number of books, and the USA in terms of number of authors. I say…
The latest addition to my website is Dannie Abse's Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve. Dannie Abse died last week, aged ninety-one. He was best-known as a poet but he…
The latest addition to my website is Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned The Shadows. Native American authors still get something of a short shrift in the US pantheon,…
The latest addition to my website is Javier Marías' Así empieza lo malo [Thus Bad Begins]. This is another excellent novel from Marías about marital relations, the enduring effect of…
The latest addition to my website is Kirsti Paltto's Guržo luottat, the first Sámi novel on my website, and, apparently, the first novel written by a Sámi woman. I have…
The latest addition to my website is Réda Dalil's Le Job [The Job]. Having decided, unlike the past two years, not to read all the Man Booker shortlist entries, as…
The latest addition to my website is Wilson Harris' The Eye of the Scarecrow. This is another strange novel from Harris, about a trip into the Guyanese jungle to find…
The most recent addition to my website is Pierre Mertens' Les éblouissements (Shadowlight), Mertens' best-known novel. It tells the story of German poet Gottfried Benn, starting with a section on…
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's The Children Act. This novel did not make the Man Booker 20124 longlist and, while it certainly is not a bad…
The latest addition to my website is David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks. While this did make the Man Booker 2014 longlist, it surprisingly did not make the shortlist. I suspect…