Still reading…
Despite appearances, I have not been promoting myself 24 hours a day 🙂 I finished The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie and have started Savage Detectives by…
Radio interview
I was interviewed by Jo Thoenes on BBC Oxford yesterday. I had done radio and TV a few times when I was…
Sheer egoism
Yes, I went around bookshops looking for my book on the shelves. And I started taking photos of it... OK, so it's…
Launch!
I realised I haven’t written anything here for a week. The official reason is that I was busy – the unofficial reason…
On not knowing very much about anything
Even Tolstoy and Goethe and Proust must have had the odd moment when they wondered if they really knew what they were…
Post-racial America
Please, somebody give me a non-racist explanation for this cartoon. Please.
“Amsterdam” by Ian McEwan
This was a good, quick read. An interesting story that explores several moral issues such as euthanasia and privacy rights. Another theme…
Books arrived!
When I first decided to quit my sensible career job and focus on writing, I suppose this is the day I had…
“An Artist of the Floating World” by Kazuo Ishiguro
An elderly, celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, is living in retirement in Japan just after the end of World War Two. His daughter…