Month: April 2003
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Spies
I don’t think that before reading Michael Frayn’s previous novel, Headlong, I’d read any of his work. I’ve certainly seen some of his plays – most notably Copenhagen about the meeting of Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen during the Second World War. I taped it not too long ago, when it was shown on BBC4.…
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After The Quake
Another Murakami book, and very entertaining like the others I’ve read. (I have a couple more awaiting my delectation, and it’s interesting to note that Vintage are reissuing the whole series currently in a new style of jackets following parent company Random House’s takeover of Harvill last year). After The Quake is a series of…
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Bagdhad “Falls”
So Baghdad has “fallen”. We got the no doubt iconic image of Saddam’s statue being torn down (in fact it made fascinating viewing as the TV news channels covered it all afternoon). There is still the question of where Saddam is. I can see him being on the run for quite some time. I can…
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Henning Mankell
He has a new book out… [Update #1] Well I popped into Enfield earlier, bad back notwithstanding, and Ottakers were the only shop to have it. Sadly the RRP is 14.99 and that’s a bit steep for me just now. WH Smiths and El Cheapo bookshop both have the recently published popular paperback version of…
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A Season With Verona
I’ve been wanting to read this since it came out last year, so the release of it in paperback meant I could get around to it. Now while I do idly follow Serie A (well done to Eurosport for showing it once more), I must admit that I didn’t know what would be the outcome…