Book review – & Sons by David Gilbert The first thing that announces this book is the cover, itself almost worth the price. It is an utterly arresting shot of…
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Book Review – The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis I while ago I posted a little missive about having to shed books that had outbred our groaning bookshelves. I spoke about…
Book review – Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Some many years ago we had a New York visitor from the literary world (who later won a Pulitzer Prize – long…
Review – F by Daniel Kehlmann I have been trawling lists again. Last year it was the Booker Longlist, which I attacked with unseemly optimism and basically fizzled after about…
If I had to list my 10 best books of the last year or so, the following would emphatically be on it, probably near the front – Ben Fountain (Billy…
A number of people have asked why I always write good reviews, never bad ones. The reason is simple – I only review books that I like. I stay silent…
As a late starter writer, but a life long reader, I have always held writers (particularly novelists) in ridiculously high esteem, assuming them to be children of greater gods, if…
Book Review – Traveling Sprinkler by Nicolson Baker The only other book of Nicolson Baker I have read was in 1993. It was Vox, and it made him briefly famous,…
Darkly funny, extraordinary tale about a South African living in LA who fears losing all that he loves IMPERFECT SOLO Steven Boykey Sidley Picador Africa MEYER appears to have it…
Book Review – Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill This is a startling book. It is startling in almost every interpretation of the word. It is startling because it is…