Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (2001)
I swear I didn’t pick this up because it won a Pulitzer (I’m not interested in recommendations from any outfit that hands out awards for horrible photos like...
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A History of New Orleans Music
I find this sort of thing fascinating. It’s from the back of an advert for a play called Catch the Wall, by Gabrielle Reisman, billed as “a new play with som...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, by David Mitchell (2010)
I first heard of Mitchell’s best-known book, Cloud Atlas, when I saw it on a list of books that people buy but never read. I had at least heard of most of th...
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (1955)
A classic of early post-colonial literature, I’ve been vaguely intending to read this book for years. It’s achieved the sort of status that comes with having...
Moral Disorder, by Margaret Atwood (2006)
Atwood has long been one of my favourite novelists, and I adored the first two books of her trilogy in progress (Oryx & Crake, The Year of the Flood). To...