The Sign of the Cross by Colm Tóibín
a book almost squarely aimed at me
Tag: italy
The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
like my life, a novel that’s half tragedy, half farce
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard
It’s taken me a few more days than I’d hoped, but I’ve just finished reading the fifth book of KarlContinue Reading
The Diamond Smugglers by Ian Fleming
I’m writing this on an aeroplane to Istanbul, off for a “mimibreak”*. Treating myself to a trip, all on myContinue Reading
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Well, it is good. It’s good. It’s possibly great, but it’s definitely good. Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend is basicallyContinue Reading
How to be both by Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s latest novel – How to be both – has been shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker PrizeContinue Reading
If This Is A Man and The Truce by Primo Levi
Primo Levi was a chemist, young (younger than I am now), when he was rounded up by the anti-Semitic ItalianContinue Reading
On Re-Reading Henry James and Thinking About Forster
Henry James’ little novella Daisy Miller, as well as his more sizeable The Portrait of A Lady, were two of the keyContinue Reading
