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And then it happened. The biblical prophecy came true, or at least partly true. People disappeared, millions of them at the same time, all...

Do you carry books with you when you’re out and about in the world? And, do you ever try to hide the covers? Are you kidding me? I carry ...

The Emperor (1978) was Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski's first book. It is a distinctive blend of political writing, razor sharp ...

Eating: Fresh tomatoes, anyone? With mozarella and basil, with vinegar and sardine salad (sardines, Dijon mustard, chopped cilantro, and li...

I received Molly Keane's Good Behavior as a prize for my participation in the First Annual Anita Brookner Day (thank you, Thomas ). Th...

Henry Cage puts forward the picture of an upstanding man - well-spoken, well paid, well taken care of by his housekeeper. He runs the compa...

I've finished Tim Parks's Europa , which I first wrote about here . Plato did not believe in the realm of pure forms. That much i...

I have the second of my comprehensive exams coming up. Although this has not resulted in reading nothing at all, it has meant that I have n...

Well, you know what I'm reading, so what else is new? Eating: The farm where we get our vegetables has given us fresh beets sever...

I have heard about author Elizabeth Taylor from fellow readers for years now, but Angel is the first novel of her's I have read. Wow -...

David Miller's Today (another recommendation of John Self's ) is set around the death of the author Joseph Conrad, but it is less a...

When I finished Hilary Mantel's A Change of Climate last week, I just couldn't find fiction that would satisfy. I was more drawn t...

This this has been going around like a bad summer cold - everyone has had it: BooksPlease , Books and Bicycles , My Porch ... It’s from the...

One day when Kit was ten years old, a visitor cut her wrists in the kitchen. She was just beginning on this cold, difficult form of death w...

From Jojo Moyes, an English journalist, comes The Last Letter from Your Lover inspired, she says, by watching girls trying to interpret a t...

I'm really pleased that Thomas and Simon gave me an excuse to read another of Anita Brookner's novels. In a certain way A Closed ...

I read Eva Hoffman's thoughtful novel Appassionata while on my trip. It concerns Isabel Merton, a concert pianist, whose encounter wit...