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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
HG Wells, The Door in the Wall, and MR James, Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book
These days, I tend to organise books alphabetically and by genre, which probably makes me sound more anal than I really am (most other things I just throw on the floor). But when I was a youngish teenager, I loved … Continue reading
Next time, it’s thumbscrews…
Writer, blogger, jogger, cook and author of soon-to-be-published Minding My Peas and Cucumbers, Kay Sexton has done me the great honour of reviewing Any Human Face (still available at all good booksellers, although you may have to insist) and of asking … Continue reading
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Niall Griffiths, The Dreams of Max and Ronnie, and Gwyneth Lewis, The Meat Tree
Some years ago, Canongate began to publish a series of re-workings of the world’s great myths. It was a good idea, and it’s produced some interesting and surprising works, among them Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith, a startlingly resonant … Continue reading
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Clare Dudman: 98 Reasons for Being
Last September, I was invited to take part in a book-lovers’ week in Catalonia, as one of four guest authors. (And if you think you’d enjoy a week in a manor house in a beautiful part of northern Spain, eating … Continue reading
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
It seems a bit churlish to follow my last, fairly negative review with another one – although Ishiguro‘s work generally and this novel in particular have been sufficiently praised by enough people for one small dissenting voice not to matter that much … Continue reading
Nicholas Mosley: The Hesperides Tree
I first came across Nicholas Mosley‘s work when I read Hopeful Monsters some years ago. I was deeply impressed by the book, not only by its range of intellectual reference, which includes politics, biology, genetics and physics (cue walk-on part for … Continue reading
Damon Galgut: The Good Doctor
The Man Booker Prize is a mixed blessing. Certainly, from the point of view of someone who writes novels, the publication of the long list is one of those little disappointments that enliven, and embitter, the literary year, providing – … Continue reading
A seed, a shine, a glow; thoughts on Edwin Morgan
Not so much thoughts, perhaps, as a sort of memory. Edwin Morgan came to read for Blue Room, the poetry society John Wilkinson, Charlie Bulbeck and I ran in Cambridge in the early 1970s. Assiduous readers of this blog will … Continue reading
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Top ten books written by women about gay men
Some of the best books to have been written about the male gay experience in the past hundred years have been written by women. Here are ten of my favourites. (And it would be considerably more difficult to find ten … Continue reading
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Top ten books set in Rome
Book Depository used to have a weekly post called Tuesday Top Ten. I thought it would be fun (and useful) to pick out my top ten books set in Rome. Unfortunately, Book Depository decided to discontinue their Tuesday Top Ten, … Continue reading
Posted in book depository, henry james, italy, pasolini, review, rome, shakespeare
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