Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
an excellent book about books
a solid contemporary novel
greene’s messy horny debut
a not-dirty-enough-to-be-dirty french novel
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
rooney rooney
a lovely fucking novel
some creepy southern Gothic…
i found a book in the street
a very good contemporary novel
a snobbish delight
my thoughts on literature and class
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
another ruddy belter from enard who i love
Three writers and a publisher discuss work in translation
Big books. I have an odd relationship with ’em. The idea of big books, to be honest, I have aContinue Reading
Iris Murdoch is one of the handful of writers who I return to with regular irregularity. Like Graham Greene, VirginiaContinue Reading
I’m going to be honest, I did not get what the point of Molloy was. Oooh, it was Beckettian; itContinue Reading
Obnoxiously (the manner in which I do most things), I read Tarjei Vesaas’ The Birds because Karl Ove Knausgaard refersContinue Reading
I don’t really feel I need to hide it any more – I love the novels of Graham Greene. ThisContinue Reading
This will probably be my last blog for a while, as I have a couple of essays to write over theContinue Reading
I picked this novel up from a massive pile of free books offered by my university a few weeks beforeContinue Reading