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July 17, 2024
“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop”
I think it not unreasonable to claim that Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is a ‘slight’ book. Not in terms of size (though it isn’t that large) but rather in terms of narrative and style. Not a huge amount happens it seems to me, and there is a lightness in the style which is presumably … Continue reading “Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” →
July 12, 2024
“This Other Eden”
This Other Eden is certainly up there with Paul Harding’s other novels, Enon and Tinkers. It’s a bit of a slow-burner to begin with which, given the subject matter, is somehow fitting. Part social and historical narrative, part love story, it lays bare a slice of unsavoury history. We may associate eugenics with the Nazis, … Continue reading “This Other Eden” →
July 10, 2024
Performing “Crash” again was great!
It was tremendous fun to perform “Crash – the last thirty minutes of a life” once more, this time at the inaugural Market Rasen ‘WordFest’ event on Saturday. It could end up being something I do regularly while I am able to… The hour spent after lunch reading to and in conversation with a small … Continue reading Performing “Crash” again was great! →
July 5, 2024
“Crash” performance is tomorrow!
Clip from the Market Rasen Mail: Really excited to be performing Crash again tomorrow, plus further readings of poetry and prose an hour later! Click on the image above to be taken to the booking page, or the button below for the event website.
July 4, 2024
“No Map Could Show Them”
A familiar story. Here is another collection of poems which is almost entirely single-themed (woman climbers and climbing) and which, as a result, means many of the poems blend into one another and risk losing their individual identity. Which is a shame. Especially as some of them – like the excellent “Kiss” – might be … Continue reading “No Map Could Show Them” →
July 3, 2024
Starting stories, minutiae, and scratching an itch…
Some recent posts from my Substack site:
July 2, 2024
July 1, 2024
New books out this week!
And if you go to the website you’ll even find a post about kissing….
June 29, 2024
“Collected Stories” – Peter Carey
It has been many years since I read any Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda, and I remember nothing of it. Perhaps because of that I was somewhat thrown by his Collected Stories. Not in the sense of how well-written they are, but rather the strange dystopian worlds many of them seem to inhabit. There is … Continue reading “Collected Stories” – Peter Carey →
