We all fondly remember Shel Silverstein’s cute food poems, but little did we know about the UK based Hungarian poet, George Szirtes’s magical food poems for the little ones. Why… Read More
10th April Update!
One of my 2020 resolutions was to read more widely and consistently (which hasn’t been working too well so far), but there’s been an attempt. Hopefully I pi… Read More
Sister to the Man Booker Prize, the Man Booker International Prize began in 2005 as an award for a body of work and changed in 2016 to be an award for a single work of fiction, translat… Read More
This article titled “The World Goes On review – a masterpiece of fear and futility” was written by Claire Kohda Hazelton, for The Observer on Sunday 12th November 2017 17… Read More
I have a review of The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert in The Guardian. Here are a few notes and comments on points which I didn't manage to fit in the review or, if I did, got c… Read More
His mere arrival itself had been excessively mysterious, or at least had proceeded very differently from that of the others, for he had not come by train and then by bus; for however unbelie… Read More