Friday, 30 March 2018

Advertisement: Trevor Pateman, Silence Is So Accurate

›
Click on Image to Magnify This morning I see that on Amazon  there are copies of my 2017 hardback book of essays Silence Is So Accu...
Sunday, 25 March 2018

Review: Julian Maclaren-Ross, Of Love and Hunger

›
This was a pick from a Waterstones table, almost random but influenced by the fact that it is set on the part of the English south c...
Sunday, 11 March 2018

Review: Denise Riley, Impersonal Passion

›
  Click on Image to Magnify Since I stopped teaching in 2000, I don’t have to read anything. I make my own choices. In practice, fo...
Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Essay: Are You An Academic In A Hurry? Be Prepared to Wait Twenty Five Years

›
Academic work is a slow business, academic publishing was always crushingly slow, and the reception of academic work even slower. The chro...
Monday, 5 February 2018

Review Philippe Sands, East West Street

›
I don’t usually provide quotable quotes about books I read but I have to say of this one that it is an extraordinary achievement, ...
Sunday, 28 January 2018

The Awfulness of Modern Book Design and Production

›
It’s very hard to sell books, I’m told, and that’s one reason why publishers try to keep them cheap. Modern printing technology has slashe...
Saturday, 27 January 2018

Review: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

›
This is a long, leisurely book, with a single narrator who does not have the benefit of a university education and who sustains a str...