“Anarchy” by Errico Malatesta
With the G20 protests engulfing London this week, and anarchy briefly replacing terror as the bogeyman du jour, I thought it would be a good time to take…
On the Holloway Road on the Holloway Road
I went to do a stock signing at Blackwell’s on the Holloway Road last week. It was great to see the book…
“The Savage Detectives” by Roberto Bolano
If I describe the plot of this book, it will sound incredibly boring. Even a brief summary is boring, unless of course…
My book is a bestseller*
* in Crouch End. Hey, it may not be the New York Times bestseller list, but it made me proud when I…
Ismail Kadare and dissent
Interesting piece in The Guardian recently about the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare and his alleged ties to the Hoxha regime. I went to see Ismail Kadare speak at…
London Buses #1
One of the things I love about London is riding the double-decker buses. You see things differently from up there on the…
“The Enchantress of Florence” by Salman Rushdie
I don’t quite know what to make of this book. There were so many storylines in so many countries at so many…
New Kerouac novel
I was excited to read recently that Jack Kerouac’s unpublished first novel The Sea is my Brother is to be published next…