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Siste Viator / Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay, her memoir about chronic illness and recovery, is an incredible book; and one of its most interesting lines for me was: ‘A lyric speaker must occupy the lyric...
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The Graveyard Book / Neil Gaiman
It’s safe to say that we’re used to thinking of the living and the dead as pretty different creatures. Leave it to Neil Gaiman – winner of winner of 3 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram...
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Running in the Family / Michael Ondaatje
My friend Jonathan, who accompanied me on my holiday in Sri Lanka, is a keen photographer, so I thought I’d ask him how to take a good shot of Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family. ‘You want an...
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Liar / Justine Larbalestier
I’m as little physically intrepid as it is humanly possible for a person to be. I do not like rollercoasters. I do not like to change hairdressers very often. God forbid that I go on some kind of...
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The Adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow
A woman, standing, with an eagle on her arm.
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Gallimaufry / Michael Quinion
We hear a lot about the death of language. Whether it’s the death of the author, the novel, the letter – every literary item imaginable has, it seems, been eulogised. Michael Quinion’s Gallimaufry is...
View ArticleIndignation / Philip Roth
When I read Indignation over the summer, I really enjoyed it. But I wouldn’t have read it unless my boyfriend hadn’t been given it by an Icelandic friend he’d met in Tanzania and if I hadn’t been on...
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Breath / Tim Winton
Let’s talk about my Too Early Introduction To Tim Winton. When I was a wee tacker with no friends and a constant seat at the library, my parents and teachers often encouraged me to expand my readerly...
View ArticleThe Shadow of the Sun / Ryszard Kapuscinski
Now we’re really digging into the archives. I actually read The Shadow of the Sun over a year ago, in preparation for my holiday to north-east Africa. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a great...
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The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins
It’s lucky that I’m usually a pretty dilatory blogger. If I blogged about everything straight after I read it, I wouldn’t have anything to write about during the run-up to the Emerging Writers’...
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