Review: Hitler’s Private Library – Timothy W Ryback
I am always interested in the way reading affects people, and also in the psychology of the German people in the build-up to the Second World War. Timothy Ryback has studied the remnants of Hitler’s...
View ArticleReview: Making an Elephant – Graham Swift
Making an Elephant is one of those books which I thoroughly enjoyed from the moment it arrived through the post – a nicely designed and substantial book with plenty of interesting content (including...
View ArticleReview: Death and the Author – David Ellis
The Oxford University Press website helpfully gives a list of potential readers of their books and in the case of Death and the Author, the expectation is as follows: a. Anyone with a interest in D....
View ArticleReview: Introducing Kafka – Mairowitz and Crumb
I’ve seen Icon Books Introducing series in the bookshops but it was only when confronted by a long train journey with my current novel finished that I finally dived in and bought one. I don’t think...
View ArticleReview: Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoire – Rick Gekoski
I suppose one of the quickest way to get an idea about someone is to look at their bookcase, or even better, to talk to them about books which have inspired them and guided them through life. Quite a...
View ArticleReview: Excavating Kafka – James Hawes
I started to read the books of Franz Kafka as a young man and found them remarkably relevant to me at the time, describing as they do a sense of alienation from mainstream society which so fitted in...
View ArticleReview: Love, Sex, Death and Words – John Sutherland and Stephen Fender
This is a review of a book I was sent by Icon Books, but at my request – I would have purchased it anyway, especially after having read it, so thanks to Icon. I have been looking forward to reading...
View ArticleReview: The Possessed – Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman’s book of essays, The Possessed, loosely based on the joys of reading classic Russian literature, turns out to be a bit of a hodge-podge of travel-writing, literary criticism and a...
View ArticleReview: Such Stuff as Dreams – Keith Oatley
Keith Oatley is a novelist and professor of cognitive psychology at the Univeristy of Toronto. He has some remakable things to say about the act of reading. His book, Such Stuff as Dreams suggests...
View ArticleReview: C S Lewis: A Life – Alister McGrath
When I first saw this book, C. S. Lewis: a Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet I wondered why anyone would want to write another biography of C S Lewis. After all, George Sayer, A N Wilson,...
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