New novel The Blind Light OUT NOW. Author of Your Father Sends His Love, If This is Home, Ten Stories About Smoking; book reviewer; Columbo enthusiast.
Delighted to get my first Brexit benefit! EE just told me that soon I'll be able to use calls, texts and data in the EU from just £2.47 per day! It's great, because that's a full £2.47 a day more than they were obligated to charge under EU legislation. Win.
@maxjliu I struggle to see the writer of The Wind Up Bird in much of his later work, and your review of this latest is very welcome as it means I don't need to read it. Thanks for saving me the cash.
Join Veronica Raimo in conversation with @StuartEvers at the Italian Cultural Institure (@iiclondra) on the 29th November at 6:30pm, talking about her bestselling, prize-winning novel LOST ON ME.
Get your tickets here: https://t.co/d37vUq4f2u
This is the first year in ages I've read all the Booker Shortlist. I loved three, enjoyed two and was entertained but not massively enthused by one. Hoping for Orbital or Held as the winner.
In my continuing descent into the Thomas Mann hole, I watched Death in Venice last night. It's a superb performance by Dirk Bogarde, but my god, an entire hour of a man's furtive glances at a young boy is more than I could take.