Howard Jacobson writes with sophistication and verve. I often found myself pausing over a sentence to take in the meaning
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Author: Simon
The editor of The Readers Loft, and pursuer of relatively interesting information, Simon has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing and Journalism from the University of Wales, and is a photo-journalist and writer whose written and photographic work has been represented by the AFP news agency and appeared in newspapers across Europe and Asia.
Caribou Island – David Vann
I think it will by now be clear that this book is dark, It is so dark that un-remitting gloom may be a better description of it
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The Seventh Gate – Richard Zimler
This is a magnificent book, reminding me slightly of Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum – equally disturbing and quite as challenging.
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Human Smoke – Nicholson Baker
this is an immensely valuable book which provides a vast amount of excellent reference material for pacifists and reluctant supporters of war.
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Empire – Michael Hardt
A book described as a communist manifesto for the 21st Century is also, perhaps, not a book many would expect to see flying off the shelves.
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The Crimson Petal and The White – Michel Faber
The novel is of epic scale in that the story covers a number of years and the rise and fall of a wide cast of characters.
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