Amélie Nothomb: Biographie de la faim (The Life of Hunger)
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Biographie de la faim (The Life of Hunger). This one is similar to many of her other novels - the story…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Biographie de la faim (The Life of Hunger). This one is similar to many of her other novels - the story…
The latest addition to my website is Parijat's शिरिषको फूल (Blue Mimosa), a novel by an Indian-born, Nepali writer and one of only two of her novels translated into English.…
The latest addition to my website is Carlos Rojas' El sueño de Sarajevo [The Dream of Sarajevo]. This is the third book of his Sandro Vasari trilogy and certainly the…
The latest addition to my website is Carmen Laforet's Nada (Nada; Andrea), a Spanish novel that not only has been translated into English but is in print in English in…
I have just published my latest website statistics. I am not sure if they mean anything, but I note that I have read books from thirteen more countries than six…
Why do we seem to like Hitler in our fiction? Last year saw the English translation of Laurent Binet's HHhH (HHhH) and next year will see the publication in English…
Having read John Lanchester's article on the lack of novels involving the London Tube system, I decided to create a list of novels (partially) set on the London Underground Railway.…
The most recent addition to my website is Carlos Rojas' El Ingenioso Hidalgo y Poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos (The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca…
The latest addition to my website is Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe. I had previously read his The Slap but was not terribly impressed with it. I was not terribly impressed…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph McElroy's Actress in the House. This is another somewhat odd novel from McElroy, his first in fifteen years (and the next one…