The Bookshelf

Here are some of the books I read this year, presented in rough chronological order, that I have felt were particularly good. Where I have w...

Donna Tartt's watch (image via Lacza ). There has been, in some circles, much debate over the literary and artistic worth of The G...

© / Timothy Kennett I fell in love over the summer with the Chilean national team, just like I did four years ago. They played at the...

The Luminaries : good. (via  themanbookerprize.com ) I was lucky enough to be supervised by one of the judges of last year's Ma...

South Downs, South England, snow; some sheep. (via  my.opera.com ) Robert Facfarlane doesn't live in the same world as the rest o...

The X-Files  believed in the truth. (source:  x-files.wikia.com ) Paranoia is a trendy mental state. Paranoid delusions have been rec...

I've been reading quite a lot of Zadie Smith recently. I read her latest novel, NW . I read some short fiction that appeared in the New...