Reading In the Name of Truth by Viveca Sten In the Name of Truth by Swedish writer Viveca Sten is a well-plotted, intriguing crime novel whose central event is the disappearance of an…
Reading March 2020 Reading Roundup Overall, it was a very good month of reading for me. Books, as usual, were the lifeboats I ran for when things…
Reading Amora by Natalia Borges Polesso: Review Amora won several major literary prizes when it was first published in Brazil several years ago, and having just got my hands…
Reading The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata: Review Are you responsible for the sins and failures of your adult children? If so, what do you do about it? These are…
Reading February 2020 Reading Roundup From Japanese literature to the history of Serbia via the aftermath of war in Sierra Leone, this has been a good month’s…
The writing process Is It a Good Idea to Frustrate Your Readers’ Expectations? I was interviewed recently for a podcast by book blogger Charlie Place, and her perceptive questions got me thinking about my writing. In particular,…
Reading January 2020 Reading Roundup The first month of the year took me from Greece to Serbia via Vienna (don’t ask!), and in the world of books…
Reading Shulem Deen’s Powerful Memoir of Hasidic Life All Who Go Do Not Return by Shulem Deen is a powerful account of the author’s escape from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect…
Travel 2019: My Year of Full-Time Travel As regular readers may know, I’ve been travelling full-time with my wife Genie since the beginning of 2015. We don’t have a…