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…
The Damn List Here we go again – summer holidays, the prospect of a couple of weeks of uninterrupted slothfulness. Where you reap the rewards that you imagine you deserve …
Turning 60 The last time I did the big birthday speech was 10 years ago. I chose the theme of taking stock then, what I had achieved, and what I…
I spent decades reading fiction before I sat down to write my first novel. One of the things that had always struck me as magical, and even inimitable, was the…
Boston – The stuff of fiction This morning TV news was awash with braying Boston college students mugging for the camera ‘Boston, Boston, Boston’ to news of the capture of…
It’s a mess… A literary agent I know in New York related the following horror. In the days before PCs, the average NY agent received about 300 manuscripts per year….
On being shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times Fiction Prize Last night (Saturday 18th May) I had the extraordinary experience of being shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2013….