Literary events How quickly can you put out an eBook? So this morning Chinese writer Mo Yan was announced as the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Not having heard of him,…
Reading Author interview – J.R. Crook I reviewed J.R. Crook’s debut novel Sleeping Patterns on this blog a few weeks ago, and thought I’d follow up by asking…
Published work Me and Marcel I was happy to hear that one of my short stories has been translated into Turkish and published in a literary magazine.…
Reading The 20 best Caribbean book blogs Since moving to Barbados in December last year, I’ve been keen to discover more about Caribbean literature, and a great way to…
Reading Off-key stories hit the mark I was excited to meet Courttia Newland at Bim Literary Festival here in Barbados earlier this year. He’s a British writer, but…
Reading Tabucchi Week: Pereira Maintains The most striking thing about Pereira Maintains is the narrative voice. It’s narrated in the third person, but the two words from the title,…
Literary events On the wall at Foyles An interesting thing happened to me this week. I ended up being featured in a photography exhibition at Foyles bookshop in central…
A Virtual Love The blurb has landed Ah, things are really rolling now. After the mysterious appearance of a listing for my next novel on Amazon recently, now a…
Reading Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe The premise of this book is delightful: a novella in 51 short chapters, describing the life of famous 17th-century Chinese painter Bada Shanren,…