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Reading J G Farrell
I’m halfway through The Siege of Krishnapur and loving J G Farrell’s wry humour as he traces the decline of British colonial power in a fictional Indian outpost. Farrell’s novel – the second in the...
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An Unsolved Mystery: Gillespie and I
I picked this novel up in an airport bookshop hoping it would keep me so engrossed I wouldn’t notice the length of the flight. It seemed it would tick all the boxes – historical setting, a sense of...
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Man Booker Prize Long List Announced
The 12 books long listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize were announced earlier today. As expected Hilary Mantel is on the list with Bring up the Bodies and there are a few familiar names. Michael...
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Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: Review
Harold Fry is one of those men whose life has never amounted to much. He’s no more likely to suddenly start to walk from one end of England to the other, than he is to tell his boss at the brewery what...
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Saraswati Park: An Intimate Portrait
My enjoyment of novels set in India has continued with Saraswati Park, the debut novel by Anjali Joseph. Set in Bombay it features Mohan who in an age of electronic communication, sits under a tree...
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Booker Prize attracts controversy – again
Just as it wouldn’t be summer without the photos in my local newspaper about giant marrows, it wouldn’t be Man Booker prize winning season without someone taking a jibe at the prize. The latest author...
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Review: Pure by Andrew Miller
It’s 1785. Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, ambitious engineer, arrives at the palace of Versailles hoping to get a Ministerial commission that will help him make a mark on the world. He “dreams of...
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2013 Man Booker Longlist announced
It’s now clear that I do not have a glittering career ahead of me as a bookmaker, since the only book I predicted to get on this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist, was nowhere to be seen. A number of...
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2013 Booker Talk awards
We’ve had the Booker and the Nobel, the Carnegie and the Pulitzer; not to mention the Costa’s and the Bailey’s. Now comes — what some might consider the most prestigious prize of all — the BookerTalk...
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Booker Prize Long List Draws Closer
The judges are getting close to the time when their long list selection for the 2012 Man Booker prize will be announced. The judges have more than 100 titles to read from which they’ll select 12 or 13...
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