Reading

Just in case, er, someone, is interested, I was reading Aubade by Philip Larkin for the nth time last night, just before I went to bed. Here it is. I don’t think this will land me in any trouble, copyright wise. I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.Waking at four to soundless dark, … Keep reading

It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Hunter S Thompson dies at 67

Continuing the coverage of his new novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro is interviewed in today’s Observer. From his semi-detached house in suburban Golders Green, in north London, Kazuo Ishiguro has made himself an architect of singular, self-enclosed worlds. His writing traps us inside strange skulls. He spends, he says, around five years on … Keep reading

The Guardian profile Kazuo Ishiguro today. Kazuo Ishiguro’s early career set a modern benchmark for precocious literary success. Born in 1954, in 1982 he won the Winifred Holtby award for the best expression of a sense of place, for his debut novel A Pale View of Hills . In 1983, he was included in the … Keep reading

I have just invested in this: Which I saw in Waterstones, strangely without a UK price on the back. It turned out it was £8.99. My interest was first sparked by this article in the Guardian, which made it sound like a very amusing read: One final point: Rex Pickett did not, just for the … Keep reading