Jun’ichiro Tanizaki: 鍵 (The Key)
The latest addition to my website is Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's 鍵 (The Key). This is a highly erotic novel, written entirely in the form of diary entries by an older, unnamed…
The latest addition to my website is Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's 鍵 (The Key). This is a highly erotic novel, written entirely in the form of diary entries by an older, unnamed…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's Il cigno (The Swan). This is Vassalli's Mafia novel, for which he got some criticism, not least because he is a…
The blog In lieu of a field guide has published a list of Philippine novels in English translation. Always interested in novels in translation from countries which I know little…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's La chimera (The Chimera). Set in Italy at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, this is…
The latest addition to my website is Marina Warner's The Leto Bundle. This is a superb novel about identity, refugees, immigration, religion, the effect of war and political upheaval, particularly…
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Scott's De Potter's Grand Tour. There has been some excitement this summer with all the new novels coming out late summer/autumn. These…
The latest addition to my website is Chantal Spitz's L'île des rêves écrasés (Island of Shattered Dreams), the first novel written by a native Tahitian. Spitz originally wrote this novel…
The latest addition to my website is Haruki Murakami's 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 (Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage). This book has had mixed reviews but, though it is not your…
The latest addition to my website is Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This book has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize longlist for 2014. The…
The latest addition to my website is Wilson Harris' The Guyana Quartet. This consists of four relatively short novels, all set in the Guyana jungle, and it is generally considered…