My 14 Books of the Year 2014 ( none of which are actually from 2014 ) (and there are actually more than 14) I guess I'm a bit late wi...

Ghosts - César Aira (Translated by Chris Andrews) I was expecting Aira to be a strange writer, although not sure in what way. I had b...

What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe (US Title The Wimshaw Legacy ) (The US title of the film What a Carve Up! was No Place Like Homicide ...

The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti (Translated by Nick Caistor) " Many people swear they saw him that lunchtime in the dying day...

The End of a Mission - Heinrich Böll (Translated by Leila Vennewitz) My second choice for GermanLitMonth allowed me to continue to ma...

Rebellion - Joseph Roth Translated by - Michael Hofmann " They were blind or halt. They limped. They had shattered spines. They we...

Memory of Fire, 1: Genesis - Eduardo Galeano (Translated by  Cedric Belfrage) Genesis is the first part of Galeano's ambitious ...

The Goat's Are Singing Long Time, No See - Dermot Healy " It's a terror to hear a sound that is not there. Have you ever...

Mysteries - Knut Hamsun Translated by Gerry Bothmer "In the middle of the summer of 1891 the most extraordinary things began hap...

The Goats are Singing Sudden Times - Dermot Healy " The regrets come with a vengeance. The want of revenge comes with a vengean...

The Goats are Singing The Bend for Home - Dermot Healy My enjoyment of re-reading Healy's sparkling and generous memoirs has been...

The Great Christmas Carve Up!  December Readalong of Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! This post on Jonathan Coe's Expo 58 has ...

The Goats Are Singing A Goat's Song - Dermot Healy They say that character is fate and that that is the key to great tragedy. A ...

The Goats are Singing  Fighting with Shadows , or Sciamachy - Dermot Healy Fighting with Shadows , published in 1984, was Dermot Healy...

The Goats Are Singing  Banished Misfortune (5) - Dermot Healy I've been stumbling slowly through the works of Dermot Healy for t...

The Goats are Singing Banished Misfortune (4) - Dermot Healy Further thoughts on Dermot Healy's debut collection of short stories...

The Goats are Singing  Banished Misfortune (3) - Dermot Healy The third story in Banished Misfortune is The Island and the Calves , ...

The Ice Age - Margaret Drabble " there was no rational explanation for the sense of alarm, panic and despondency which seemed to...

The Goats are Singing -  Banished Misfortune (2) - Dermot Healy Thoughts on the second story in Banished Misfortune , Dermot Healy...

The Goats are Singing  - Banished Misfortune (1) - Dermot Healy My intention to read all of Dermot Healy's fiction this month and...