Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Teju Cole event at The Portobello Bookshop

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I very much enjoyed the event with Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole at The Portobello Bookshop last night , chaired by Ro...
Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Ten years since The State of Me - publishing & illness (&Lionel Shriver)

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This August it will  be ten years since the The State of Me was published. I'm still very proud of the novel and it remains my weapon i...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

Learning to swim in Lahore; Muriel Spark and Kjersti Skomsvold

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I recently reviewed Isambard Wilkinson's Travels in a Dervish Cloak , this passage stays in my mind: Pakistani novelists of  a c...
Sunday, 9 July 2017

'Re-writing the hurt' (Jeanette Winterson)

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Podcasts can fill me with dread because *sometimes* they are dull and you (often) can't fast-forward. I listened last night - lying dow...
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Dr Avindra Nath's research. And lovely books

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I'm so very, very heartened by the research that is currently going in USA at the National Institute of Health with Dr Avindra Nath as ...
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Monday, 10 April 2017

A Book of Banished Words

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Delighted to have a short piece in Nancy Campbell's just published The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words (photo from @BirdEditio...
Tuesday, 24 January 2017

A change of mind...

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Fiction titles are sometimes changed to be more nuanced and suit the country of publication. For example, Miss Smilla's Feeling For Sno...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

On fathers: Om Puri, Hisham Matar and some short writing

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Saddened to learn that Om Puri has died aged only sixty-six . I loved him, of course, as the flawed Pakistani father in East is East. And a...
Friday, 18 November 2016

The world is fucked and books are all we have

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The world is fucked and books are all we have. When things are tough, I look for illumination in poetry, nothing has helped, but then a few...
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Saturday, 13 August 2016

Who has control of the story? - Anna Katharina Schaffner's EXHAUSTION

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I recall when I read Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton in 2012, my favourite line was, 'Who shall have control over the story?'. ...
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Monday, 23 May 2016

Introduction to James Baldwin

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I have never read James Baldwin - there is no reason, so many books are (necessarily, due to time and energy) unread - but after seeing thi...
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Sunday, 1 May 2016

Wellcome Book Prize 2016 - ignorance rewarding ignorance

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*Updating this post : fantastic news, first ME biobank in Europe is officially opening its doors to external researchers on May 12 at Londo...
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