by NRB | 17 Apr 2018 | Fiction |
In Exit West the worldwide problem of refugee settlement plus the recounting of a love story are explored in a tender, clear-eyed, wryly humorous and philosophical way. This wonderful novel, shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, is timely, dealing as it...
by NRB | 13 Mar 2018 | Fiction |
Roy shows a deft hand when writing about the lives of the lowest and the most successful with equal detail. This is Arundhati Roy’s second novel in 20 years. Her first, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997 and this one was longlisted...
by NRB | 10 Oct 2017 | Fiction |
This classic novel by the recent Nobel-winner gives us the life of an English ‘gentleman’s gentleman’ and invites us to analyse the relationship between master and servant. This year the Japanese-born English writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature;...
by NRB | 3 May 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’m indebted to writer and publisher Michael Wilding for introducing me to Michael Frayn, whom I’d heard of but never read. He was enjoying Frayn’s 1998 novel Headlong and I’d just finished an historical novel of no distinction and was looking for something good....