Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Any Human Face review

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Charles Lambert

And I found this review of Any Human Face waiting for me when I turned on my laptop this afternoon… Here’s a taste of it. This is an unusual book in that it has everything – love, suspense, moral conflict, … Continue reading →

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Any Human Face launch

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Any Human Face had its official UK launch yesterday evening in the Travel Bookshop, a place I wholeheartedly recommend for all your reading needs should you be in or near Notting Hill, and probably worth a specific trip for. (It … Continue reading →

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UK launch

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Charles Lambert

I’ll be reading from Any Human Face on Saturday, 3 July, at The Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill, London. Even better, I’ll be accompanied by Forward shortlisted poet Simon Barraclough, for an Italian-themed evening. This is the cover of Simon’s … Continue reading →

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Readings of Genet (mine)

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Forgive my absence. If this blog were a different kind of open book from the one it is, I’d have a lot to tell, but, post-Diana, and unfashionably, I’ve opted for discretion. Which means that all I’m using it for … Continue reading →

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Surveillance

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Charles Lambert

I’ve just discovered that Amazon knows – and registers – whenever Kindle users highlight a passage on their Kindles, and it reminded me of something I saw many years when John Wilkinson and I were on a walking (actually, hitch-hiking) … Continue reading →

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Orlovsky RIP

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Charles Lambert
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Bourgeois RIP

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Charles Lambert

I can’t be the only person who remembers that wonderful, exhilarating, fuck-you-all moment from a documentary on Louise Bourgeois when the interviewer, appalled, watches the artist smash a sculpture he’d, inappropriately in her opinion, praised. I’ve just found out about … Continue reading →

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Disturbing…

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Rob Spence reviews Any Human Face on Topsyturvydom, his highly recommended blog. It’s a great thrill when someone whose opinion you respect gets it, and Rob certainly gets it here. This is a taste of the review: This novel is, … Continue reading →

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Powerful…

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Charles Lambert

An excellent review of Any Human Face in The American in Italia. This is the best bit: Andrew’s solitary life suddenly becomes a thriller in itself, as Lambert takes the wraps off dangerous and age-old Italian conspiracies. Yet the larger … Continue reading →

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Rome launch

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Well, Any Human Face is now officially launched in its home city of Rome, in the Trastevere studio of Paola Casalino, just round the corner from the setting of the first chapter and a five minute walk from Andrew Caruso’s … Continue reading →

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