Michael Frayn, Skios
This week I read “Skios” by Michael Frayn (who was born in Mill Hill). It’s another book from now customary pile of books that tends to …
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Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd’s “Hawksmoor” was first published in 1985. I bought a recent reissue that forms part of Penguin’s …
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
“The Marriage Plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides is a novel about love and growing up set in the privileged world of US academia in the …
Why I Love On The Road
I was fifteen when I first read “On The Road” by Jack Kerouac and recently, after twice as much lifetime lived, I was able to …
Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
A while back, I decided I was going to write about the Iain M. Banks sci-fi-novels (mainly as a respite from having to read and write about …
On Pynchon
The existence, or impending existence, of a new novel by Thomas Pynchon was announced today. I have all his previous books (seven written …
Jon McGregor, Even The Dogs
Over my holiday I read “Even The Dogs” by Jon McGregor. I’ve not quite finished it yet but that will at least prevent me …
Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
“The Gone-Away World” is a novel by Nick Harkaway. It’s about a world slightly askew to our own in which the powers-that-be have deigned to …
Another Reading List
Helen Fisher, Some Lessons In Love
As indicated by my reading list posted a couple of months ago (which has since been added to here), I’ve started to try to read more about …
Will Bingley and Anthony Hope-Smith, Gonzo
Another book from the “university of life” pile (though not in the picture), “Gonzo” is the biography of Hunter S. Thompson in graphical …
Reading list, mid-April 2012