by NRB | 10 Aug 2017 | Fiction |
Hotel du Lac is a small classic that won the 1984 Man Booker Prize for Anita Brookner. When I found Hotel du Lac recently on my shelves I was amazed to realise that it was a different book from the one I read in the 1980s – or rather, I was a different reader. I had...
by NRB | 15 Oct 2012 | Fiction |
There are clever and subtle echoes in this book, but it is not a novel. A Possible Life is not a novel and it is misleading of Faulks and his publishers to present it as one. It’s a collection of long short stories, two of which are almost novella length. No...
by Jean Bedford | 10 Oct 2012 | Fiction |
This much-talked-about novel was an outsider selection for the 2012 Booker shortlist. Futh (his only name) takes a ferry to Europe for a week’s walking holiday in Germany after the break-up of his marriage, to ease his transition from the marital home to his new flat....
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