Doorstopping fiction back in fashion
Copy: The National 05/12/11 >> Julian Barnes may have won the Booker Prize for one of the slightest books in the prize’s history, but a trip to Waterstone’s this Christmas will confirm that the trend […]
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WHERE SHAKESPEARE MEETS THE SUBCONTINENT
Copy: The National 09/11/11 >> It was fantastic to see Daljit Nagra‘s name among the shortlisted poets for the prestigious TS Eliot prize. He has one of those brilliantly fresh voices which periodically shake up […]
HAS ARABIC BOOKER PRIZE DONE ITS JOB?
Copy: The National, 26/10/11 >>On Sunday I went to the International Prize For Arabic Fiction event at Manchester Literature Festival. At which I learned that it’s not considered very PC to call it the Arabic […]
PETER JAMES ON HOW TO THRILL… REALISTICALLY
Copy: The National 25/10/11 >>I’ll be honest, airport thrillers are not the books I usually turn to. But I’d heard lots of good reports about Peter James, and in the week when there was so […]
REVIEW: MOHAMMED HANIF
Copy: The Observer 24/10/11 >>Some of you may have seen the interview I did with Mohammed for The National. There’s a link here, if not. And off the back of that, here’s a nice big […]