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Category: Fiction
“Brooklyn”
I confess I expected more from Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, especially as it is - apparently - 'now a major motion picture'. Tinsel Town must have worked its magic to turn something so slight into something 'major'. Not that I have a problem with little really happening (a lot of life's like that after all!), but … Continue reading “Brooklyn”
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Some recent posts from my Substack site: "Writing until the light goes out" "Writing until the light goes out"
“Laughable Loves”
One of the remarkable things about the stories in Milan Kundera's Laughable Loves is how he can create such an array of despicable, shallow, self-centred characters! They're so easy to despise! Perhaps that's what makes the stories funny, but I can't help but take them literally / seriously - which probably makes the characters all … Continue reading “Laughable Loves”
“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop”
I think it not unreasonable to claim that Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is a 'slight' book. Not in terms of size (though it isn't that large) but rather in terms of narrative and style. Not a huge amount happens it seems to me, and there is a lightness in the style which is presumably … Continue reading “Days at the Morisaki Bookshop”
“This Other Eden”
This Other Eden is certainly up there with Paul Harding's other novels, Enon and Tinkers. It's a bit of a slow-burner to begin with which, given the subject matter, is somehow fitting. Part social and historical narrative, part love story, it lays bare a slice of unsavoury history. We may associate eugenics with the Nazis, … Continue reading “This Other Eden”
“Crash” performance is tomorrow!
Clip from the Market Rasen Mail: Really excited to be performing Crash again tomorrow, plus further readings of poetry and prose an hour later! Click on the image above to be taken to the booking page, or the button below for the event website. The WordFest website
Starting stories, minutiae, and scratching an itch…
Some recent posts from my Substack site: "Writing until the light goes out" "Writing until the light goes out"
New books out this week!
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“Collected Stories” – Peter Carey
It has been many years since I read any Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda, and I remember nothing of it. Perhaps because of that I was somewhat thrown by his Collected Stories. Not in the sense of how well-written they are, but rather the strange dystopian worlds many of them seem to inhabit. There is … Continue reading “Collected Stories” – Peter Carey
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