A Literary Life
Novelist. Screenwriter. A Lover of the Literary Life. Welcome to my blog.
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
A Writer's Life
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How y'all been? Busy, I hope. What have I been doing? Well, today I sent my new novel out into the world, to find representat...
Sunday, 16 February 2014
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño - a Review
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Roberto Bolaño is a novelist whose work I return to frequently. He has progenitors in Borges, Kafka etc, but feels distinctly separat...
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - a Review
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Donna Tartt announced herself brightly in the literary firmament with her debut novel, The Secret History, in 1992. That novel bought...
Monday, 9 September 2013
The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode, a review
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I can still remember the moment I fell in love with this thing called cinema. Doctor Alan Grant, striding into a field, and looking o...
Man Booker Prize Shortlist Predictions
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The longlist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize seems a diverse one. There are works that range from 100 pages to 1,000. They are a set ...
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