Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy is one of my favourite writers. Sian, my wife, had managed to get tickets for Deborah Levy’s interview at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Alas, on the day … Continue reading Deborah Levy
Tag: reading
Moby Dick
A selection of short sentences from Moby Dick by Herman Melville:
Ragnarök
Into her version of Ragnarök, surely one of the most thrilling and apocalyptic of myths, A.S. Byatt weaves the story of a young girl evacuated to the British countryside during … Continue reading Ragnarök
There’s an art to that
SECOND PLACE by Rachel Cusk was one of the books I read on our recent holiday in Suffolk.
An hour with Alexander McCall Smith
Last night we were fortunate to be in the audience listening to Alexander McCall Smith being interviewed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. What a magical storyteller McCall Smith is. … Continue reading An hour with Alexander McCall Smith
LESSONS
A few selected extracts from LESSONS by Ian McEwan.
overstuffed
This wonderful quote [slightly adapted] is from LESSONS by Ian McEwan
The Joy of Words
What a wonderful programme for the 2023 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here are some of the events that I would like to attend, but in reality I will probably have … Continue reading The Joy of Words