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Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo 24 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo French crime fiction Translator – Howard Curtis Original title - Total Khéops Source – Review Copy Early on, in this blog I reviewed on of Izzo’s stand alone nov...
Raven by Vasyl Shkliar 23 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
Raven by Vasyl Shkliar Ukrainian fiction Translator – Sj Speight and Stephen Komarnychyj Orginial Title - Залишенець. Source – Review Copy When I was offered chance to read Vasyl Shkliar ,I was h...
Conquered city by Victor Serge 16 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Conquered city by Victor Serge Russian Fiction Translator – Richard Greenman Original title – Ville Conquise Source – Library Well I have been wanting to try Victor Serge for a long time after ...
Special Delivery by Iselin C. Hermann 15 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Special Delivery by Iselin C. Hermann Danish Fiction Translator – G. Forester Original title – Prioritaire Source – Personnel copy The other day Alan was asking about modern Epistolary novels ,I ...
German book prize longlist 14 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
Well today saw the longlist for the German version of the booker prize to be announced I’ve only read books by three of the writers Nobert Gstrein ,Clemens Meyer and Uwe timm . These books may reach u...
A man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard 13 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
A man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard Norwegian fiction Translator – Don Bartlett Original title – Min Kamp Andre Bok Source – library Well its over a year since part one of the six vol collecti...
Winston sketches a glimpse into a book lovers life 12 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
Well I could be procrastinating on not writing a review ,but that’s not the case I’m back at work tomorrow after a fortnight off work and I’m sure my old routine will slip back into place .No this is ...
To score or not to score 11 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
Well it’s telling me on the WordPress post counter I’ve reached post 750 and I feel like a change in reviewing previously I’ve been quite against scoring books I’ve read partly because I feel that I t...
BBC front row on translation fiction 8 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
Last nights edition of the uk arts show Front row had a translation special find it here it on iTunes outside UK .What I was shocked about was the writers reaction to reading translation these were fr...
New Novella from Nikesh 8 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
Untitled document.docx The Time Machine’ by Nikesh Shukla Galley Beggar Press Released: 16 August 2013 E-book: e-pub, mobi, pdf £1 We grew up in households where food was important. We grew up in ho...