I once wrote that a reader could have enough of thinking about a character’s breasts, but I will have to change my…
We meet in town, in one of the pubs. Way back when, before gastropubs and chains, before pubs got remodelled to look…
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Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by J. C. Greenway 25 August 2020With a title that is crying out to be the name of a band, up there with …And You Will Know Us…
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Like many of you who are joining in with Women in Translation Month, I am keen to read Breasts and Eggs by…
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A few years ago, I realised that my natural interest in books written in England in the 1920s and 30s was leading…
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Book Reviews
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants: Mathias Enard
by J. C. Greenway 28 July 2020If you like historical fiction that leans more to the historical than the fiction, how would you feel about an almost wholly…
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First published in 1959 with the title Primera Memoria, Ana María Matute’s novel The Island has recently been published in English by…
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I loved Fernando Sdrigotti’s short story Jolts when it appeared in 3am Magazine in 2015. Now five years have whipped by and…
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Over the lockdown, Seagull Books gave away a cornucopia of world literature to readers. I chose The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus…
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In my 20 Books of Summer ’20 post I noted that there were a number of reading challenges happening in June and…
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Having recently finished the #TBR20 challenge, along comes 20 Books of Summer ’20, hosted by Cathy at 746 Books. As she explains,…