Thursday, 30 July 2015

Review: Ferdinand von Schirach, The Girl Who Wasn't There

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I didn’t find this a gripping novel in the way that the author’s previous book The Collini Case is gripping: I read that book in a sin...
Sunday, 26 July 2015

Review: Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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Basically,No. It’s a pity that Harper Lee was prevailed upon to release this novel written half a century ago and before she wrote To...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

Review: Suzanne O'Sullivan, It's All in Your Head

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This is another book picked up by chance in Waterstone's and a most unusual one too. It's quite easy to find books which na...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Essay: Portnoy's Complaint meets the Creative Writing Class

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It was Carmen Callil who made me go out and buy a Philip Roth. When she resigned as a judge for the Man Booker International Prize, just awa...
Friday, 29 May 2015

Review: Andrew Morton, 17 Carnations: the Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up

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This is what you end up with if you place at the heart of your country’s constitution a struggling dysfunctional family, often enough...
Monday, 25 May 2015

Review: Suki KIm, Without You, There is No Us

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You couldn’t make it up. North Korea boasts one private university, the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). It tea...
Sunday, 3 May 2015

Review: Owen Jones, The Establishment

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This is a straightforward Them (the 1%) and Us (the 99%) book. It's lucid, well-documented, compelling and sometimes - as in the ch...
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