Swamplandia! (2011) – Karen RUSSELL
There was an outcry last year when the Pulitzer Prize judges decided not to award the Fiction prize—the first time since 1977. For me, the biggest story to come out […]
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Living in the Maniototo (1979) – Janet FRAME
This is the last of the novels I bought in New Zealand at the beginning of the year, and the woman at the second-hand bookstore said I chose well. Janet […]
The Tiger’s Wife (2011) – Téa OBRECHT
I need to start this review with a confession: I didn’t want to like The Tiger’s Wife. We have sold a huge number of copies of this book since it […]
1Q84 (2009) – Haruki MURAKAMI
I need to start this review with something of a caveat – for the most part, I don’t like the work of Haruki Murakami. His works tend to leave me […]
The Lake (2005) – Banana YOSHIMOTO
This is my first proper dip into the longlist of this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize – that’s quite exciting, isn’t it? I read Yoshimoto’s Kitchen a long, long time […]
From the Mouth of the Whale (2008) – SJÓN
John Self’s fascinating review of From the Mouth of the Whale intrigued me when I read it, and had it in the back of my mind that I should find […]
Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) – Haruki MURAKAMI
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, 1Q84, is being released in English translation later this year, and I’m quite keen to read it. As such, I’m trying to catch up on some […]
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 […]
Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) – Audrey NIFFENEGGER
I loved The Time Traveller’s Wife. Truly, it is one of the best science fiction novels of the past ten years, and definitely one of the greatest love stories ever […]
Wonders of a Godless World (2009) – Andrew McGAHAN
With my reading dry spell finally broken (avast, Orham Pamuk!), I treated myself to a new novel. To be fair, though, I borrowed it from work. No splurging here – […]
