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• The Round House

  

  Thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts and his father, a judge on the Ojibwe reservation where they live, are digging out fledgling tree roots that threaten to undermine... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Yes, But I Don’t Like Him

  

  I suppose if there was a message to the 20th century, it was that there is no longer anyone trustworthy at the wheel. Not necessarily in a cosmic sense, but in... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Friday Bullets

  1. I should really be writing a very serious review of Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, which was a stunning novel. But Friday is never a good day for that sor... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Julie and Romeo

  

  Well, you cannot say that this blog does not bring you variety. After a week of spies, behold we are entering the land of retirement romance. Is there even a... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sweet Tooth

  

  The last book for spy week is Sweet Tooth, written allegedly by Ian McEwan. It may be that reading so much about espionage has given me a conspiracy complex, bu... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Red Joan

  

  This novel is based on a true story from 1999, in which 87-year-old Melita Norwood was identified as one of the most important and longest-serving Soviet spies... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Girl In Berlin

  

  So it’s spy novels all this week and first up is a very classy example of the genre indeed, Elizabeth Wilson’s The Girl in Berlin. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ten Reasons We Love Spies

  

  1. The original meaning of the word spy comes from the ancient Chinese and means ‘a chink’, ‘a crack’ or a ‘crevice’. Hence the iconic image of spying – the... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Hunger Games

  

  When Mr Litlove declared he wanted to watch The Hunger Games movie on the weekend, I was surprised. I didn’t have him down for that kind of thing at all. And... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Loveliest Month

  

  It strikes me as a bit cheap on the part of the weather gods that we are only allowed one May in a calendar year. I love it so; the crisp new leaves bursting ou... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• May Reading

  

  As is so often the case, my eyes have proved to be bigger than my stomach, and despite reading every available moment, I realise I’m not going to get through al... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Letter I’ll Never Send

  To my lovely son,So, my darling, it turns out to be harder than we think to find the right words to say, and the right time to say them. So much is happening fo... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Crime in Brief

  

  The Cutting Season – Attica LockeBelle Vie is a gorgeous antebellum mansion, restored to its former glory and now the site of weddings and conferences,... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Life; An Alternative

  

  I once read a case study about a child who, when she learned that her parents were splitting up and they would have to move house, took one of the ornate... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Song of Achilles

  

  For the larger part of the Orange-Prize-winning Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, I wondered whether I was reading the same book as everyone else. I’d seen... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• To Overshare Or Not To Overshare?

  

  Kathryn Harrison had a succès de scandale in the late 90s with her memoir The Kiss, in which she recounted the four years of incestuous relationship she had wit... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bluets

  

  1. ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour,’ Maggie Nelson writes in the first of 240 numbered paragraphs. ‘Suppose I were... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Few Trailers

  

  Just a reminder that the first creative non-fiction book I’ll be reading – hopefully with some of you – will be Bluets by Maggie Nelson this coming Sunday,... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Praise of ‘Difficult’ Novels

  

  What makes a novel difficult? Well, just about anything that doesn’t conform to the conventional unfolding of plot and character. And yet the whole point of... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Slap, European Style

  

  I haven’t read Christos Tsiolkas’s controversial novel, The Slap, although I can see I will have to now. But I think the catalyst for the narrative is a slap... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE