Click here to read my Irish Times review of Jeanette Winterson’s first novel in twelve years*, Frankissstein. Spoiler: it’s a lot better than the title suggests.
* up to a point
Ingeborg Bachmann: Malina
Click here to read my review of Ingeborg Bachmann’s strange, sinister, essential novel, translated by Philip Boehm and published by Penguin Modern Classics.
Diana Evans: Ordinary People
Click here to read my review in the Irish Times of Diana Evans’ Women’s Prize-shortlisted, Rathbones Folio Prize-shortlisted, Orwell Prize for Political Fiction-shortlisted (phew) novel Ordinary People.
Territory of Light—revisited
I wrote a piece for the Penguin Classics website on Territory of Light, which was probably my favourite book of last year. Click here
to read it.
Marion Poschmann: The Pine Islands
Click here to read my review in The Guardian of the Man Booker International Prize-longlisted novel The Pine Islands, by Marion Poschmann (tr. Jen Calleja).
Ahmet Altan: I Will Never See the World Again
Click here to read my review in The Spectator of Ahmet Altan’s memoir/essays from prison, I Will Never See the World Again.
Gerald Murnane: Tamarisk Row / Border Districts
Click here to read my reviews in the Irish Times of the first UK publications of Gerald Murnane’s first novel Tamarisk Row, and his last, Border Districts.
