Tag: Fiction

• Interview with Liza Klaussmann

  Liza Klaussmann’s debut novel Tigers in Red Weather was published by Picador on 2nd August to great critical and commercial success, having already been very popular with book bloggers and literary critics. A carefully plotted family saga covering twenty years, with secrets and lies sizzling at their summer house. I reviewed the book in July and […]

  Lizzi

  August 7, 2012

  Articles, Interviews

  Carson McCullers, Fiction, Interview, Liza Klaussmann, Margaret Atwood, Patricia Highsmith, Picador, Tigers in Red Weather, Truman Capote

• True Grit by Charles Portis

  When the latest version of True Grit was released in cinemas in 2010 (the first film was released in 1969 and starred John Wayne), I was eager to see it. Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and the Coen brothers were a big yes, and my dad recommended the story. I’m not usually a fan of Westerns, but […]

  Lizzi

  May 23, 2012

  Fiction, Reviews

  20th Century, Bloomsbury, Charles Portis, Donna Tartt, Fiction, Simon & Schuster, True Grit

• The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh

  I acquired my slightly enormous paperback early copy of this book from the Penguin Bloggers Night (I will stop going on about that eventually) and it was one I was particularly eager to read. Having enjoyed Jennifer McVeigh’s reading and having chatted with her at the event, I had high expectations for The Fever Tree. […]

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  April 6, 2012

  Fiction, Reviews

  2012, Fiction, Jennifer McVeigh, Penguin, South Africa

• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

  I came to hear of Djuna Barnes when I started reading Anais Nin, who was influenced by her. I read a little about Barnes and liked what I read – she was an American in Paris in the 1920s, wrapped up in the Modernist scene. I read recommendations from TS Eliot. This was enough to […]

  Lizzi

  March 1, 2012

  Fiction, Reviews

  20th Century, Anais Nin, Carson McCullers, Djuna Barnes, Faber, Fiction, Jeanette Winterson, Modernism, Nightwood, TS Eliot

• A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

  Anais Nin is a name I have been familiar with for years, but an author I knew very little about. I only knew her to be a writer from the early 20th century, whose novels were often very erotic. I had always heard of A Spy in the House of Love and was always intrigued by the […]

  Lizzi

  February 1, 2012

  Fiction, Reviews

  Anais Nin, Fiction, Penguin Modern Classics

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Guest Post)

  This is a guest post written by Meg Hayes Fisher. I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. Having been a thoroughly invested fan of Sylvia Plath’s poetry since I first came across my mum’s battered copy of Ariel, I was apprehensive about […]

  Lizzi

  January 17, 2012

  Fiction, Guest Posts, Reviews

  20th Century, Faber, Fiction, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

• Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier

  For his first novel, originally published in Germany in 1995 and only now being published in English, Pascal Mercier chose the academic world of linguistics as the background for the story. More specifically he chose a small group of professors meeting for a conference on the Italian east coast, in a seaside town not far […]

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  October 20, 2011

  Fiction, Reviews

  2011, Atlantic Books, Fiction, Germany, Pascal Mercier, Reviews