Gilbert Adair: The Dreamers
I‘ve been making it a rule of late that before I see a film I should have read the book, provided it’s available in English and that I know the…
Gabriel García Márquez: No One Writes To The Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez is one of those authors who I seem to acquire the titles of without actually reading them, partly because I found his most recent release, Memories Of My…
Jim Crace: Continent
Ever since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road came out, Jim Crace’s tenth novel, The Pesthouse, itself dealing with a future America, has had less attention. But, Picador have recently released his…
Michael Chabon: Gentlemen Of The Road
Looking at the cover of Michael Chabon’s Gentlemen Of The Road (2007) I was reminded of similar volumes consumed in my youth wherein lay the swashbuckling tales of Robin Hood…
Richard Matheson: I Am Legend
I grew up with an interest in vampire stories, working my through the likes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles but, despite forever hearing good things about…
Philippe Grimbert: Secret
On my regular visits to book shops there has been one book that I’ve picked up on each visit, pondered it awhile, and returned to the shelves. Not because it…
Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention Of Morel
Ask me what my favourite film is and I’ll no doubt respond with Last Year In Marienbad (1961), written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and directed by Alain Resnais. Its appeal is…
Arthur Miller: Plain Girl
Arthur Miller is better known to me, as I’m sure he is to many students in classrooms today, as the dramatist responsible for such plays as Death Of A Salesman…
Glenway Wescott: The Pilgrim Hawk
After the Great War there were a number of literary figures from America given over to, to some degree, the expatriate life in Europe, notably Paris. Names such as Gertrude…
Ryu Murakami: Piercing
Ryu Murakami is an author I’ve been aware of for a while now, partly because of his literary namesake, Haruki Murakami, and also through noting a positive response to his…