The Hurricane Party (2007) – Klas ÖSTERGREN
Borders has closed in Australia (woot!), and in their final days, they were basically giving books away, and The Hurricane Party was one of them. It is a part of […]
Tag Archives: love story
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) – Gabriel García MÁRQUEZ
What do you do when you come up against an author who is pretty clearly established as THE major voice of Latin American fiction of the 20th century? It’s not […]
The Museum of Innocence (2009) – Orhan PAMUK
Clearly it’s been some time since I’ve written anything here. Sorry for that – it’s been quite a busy few months, and I’ve not had a whole load of time […]
House of Meetings (2004) – Martin AMIS
I went on a book buying binge the other day. My bad. But, in my defence, none of the books I bought were full price. So that counts for something, […]
The Folding Star (1994) – Alan HOLLINGHURST
I read Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize winner, The Line of Beauty, because I wanted to see what people thought was better than David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. And while I still […]
The Lost Life (2009) – Steven CARROLL
I’ve been at work a bit more than usual lately, so I’ve had a lot of time to read at work. So instead of reading what I should be reading, […]
