The Bridge Over The Drina by Ivo Andrić
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
My pile of books, towering as it often is in January, needs to be got through. So in order toContinue Reading
I may have mentioned this in a blog post before, but my mother has the morbid (though appreciated) habit of,Continue Reading
This little book, collected from a series of lectures Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk gave in 2009, is an interesting textContinue Reading
It’s hot, I’m sweaty, it’s almost late. I’ve just read a little novella by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian, Nobel Laureate, octogenarianContinue Reading
Albert Camus was (according to the blurb of this 1960s Penguin edition) active in the French resistance during the NaziContinue Reading
Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is an aggressive, brutal, novel that tears a reader through the depths of starvation, disease andContinue Reading
This is a very serious book. It’s a deeply realist exploration of a single day in a Soviet-era prison camp,Continue Reading