Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
like my life, a novel that’s half tragedy, half farce
Tag: short novels
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
shellshock and amnesia and different kindsa love
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
Some newly-translated cracking French fiction
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart
I’m not at work, so I should be writing real prose, doing something creative, emailing pitches for articles through toContinue Reading
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is an odd book. I bought it for myself on my mad, wild, Foyles birthdayContinue Reading
Audition by Ryu Murakami
I haven’t read a novel by the “other” Murakami for years. In my long and distant and pre-blogging past, IContinue Reading
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
Both the blurb and the author biography of my 1980s edition of Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf state that thisContinue Reading
Candide by Voltaire
I’ve somehow gotten into a reading-in-translation rut. I’m going to snap out of, particularly after reading Voltaire’s tiresome and OLD Candide. IContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 