What I am reading, have read and plan to read
I keep tripping over hidden and obvious gushing and recommendations about Hilary Mantel’s novel ‘Wolf Hall’ to the extent that I am almost swithering never to read the damn thing. But I shall…and soon. Here is the lady and her novel in her own words. Continue reading Man Booker Prizewinner 2009
… and loving ‘The Broken World’ by Tim Etchells. I think I once played Sonic the Hedgehog when it first came out, and I had an old (Compaq?) desktop that came with some crappy golf game and Prince of Persia, which I think I played for maybe ten minutes before succumbing to watching dust settle. Never really got that bug. Continue reading Currently Reading…
Accept no other…The New Yorker Fiction Continue reading Stephen King for The New Yorker
Recently discovered Joshua Ferris and here is a short story he wrote for the New Yorker. I haven’t read it yet but plan to this evening. Also recommended to me, Sophie Hannah and Roberto Bolano I also keep tripping over delirious people still ecstatic from reading Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Continue reading Reading Radar
…Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Behindlings by Nicola Barker (still haven’t got very far with this). Have a week to read Paul O’Grady’s memoir ‘At My Mother’s Knee and Other Low Joints. IdonwannaIdonwanna! Continue reading Currently Reading…
Writing the Long Way Around 