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In its reaction to Kazuo Ishiguro being awarded this year’s Nobel prize for literature, The Guardian writes: The author is a worthy recipient of the Nobel prize for continually finding his voice – and discarding it for a new one.
Photo source: Ben Stansall/The Guardian/AFP/Getty Images
I have written reviews of two of Ishiguro’s books.… Read more
Read my thoughts about Alan Lightman’s book Einstein’s Dream. Here is an extract from that review:
(…) Much of the novel is about people rather than a person, it is about places rather than a given context, it is about multiple times rather than a time in particular.… Read more
Read my review of Natasha Pulley’s debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. A book well worth the reading.
Here’s a brief extract from the review:
(…) This novel is steam punk, without the steam or the punk. All cogs and wheels and clockwork in a battle between fee will and determinism, between the fundamentally human and the predictably programmable.… Read more
A review of Boy & Girl by the author Leland Dirks.
This book is brilliant. I’ll be thinking about these characters and this plot for a long, long time. Building not just one but two worlds that are quite believable and complex characters to fall in love with in such lovely prose is a beautiful accomplishment.… Read more
Darren Aronofsky’s rendition of the biblical saga, Noah, which I can highly recommend, explores the loss of the guiding voice within, the one that people attribute to God. Cut off from that creative life force, Noah clings to what he believes to be right.… Read more
Read my review of Rosamund Hodge’s Cruel Beauty.
Rosamund Hodge’s Cruel Beauty is a retelling of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. Divided into three parts, the first part deals with the period before Nyx, alias Beauty, goes to join her new husband, the ‘Beast’, ironically named the Gentle Lord.… Read more
Read my review of William Horwood’s book, Harvest. Here is an extract:
(…) The flow of time of the Hydden, the little people that live unseen at the edge of the human world in William Horwood’s Hyddenworld series, might seem laborious to us, accustomed as we are to rushing from one event to another without taking the time to stop and look and listen.… Read more
Read my review of Rachel Hartman’s book Seraphina. It begins:
Reading Rachel Hartman’s Seraphina had me thinking about those ingredients of a story that appeal to me most, probably because her book pleased me so much. I really enjoy stories where people discover they have hidden talents or are finally able to reveal gifts that have long been kept secret, just like Seraphina, Hartman’s main character.… Read more
