But For the Lovers - Wilrido D. Nolledo (Foreword by Robert Coover) "You never actually bury a volcano. There's always a resu...

August 1914 - Barbara Tuchman " When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one single dominant one transcendi...

Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard (translated by David McLintock) " For twenty years I had not wanted to know anything about the Aug...

Faces and Masks ; Century of the Wind - Eduardo Galeano (Part 2 & 3 of the Memory of Fire trilogy.) " History, the pink-v...

Books of the Year 2015 As  I have lapsed somewhat into inactivity on the book blogging front I hope to use this post to quell those pang...

Perfidia - James Ellroy " The looming apocalypse is not of our doing. We have been good citizens and did not know it was coming. ...

While the Women Are Sleeping - Javier Marías This collection of Marias' short stories spans his writing career from his teenage ye...

Gruts - Ivor Cutler Although Ivor Cutler has long been a favourite of mine it has been of his recordings rather than the written vers...

Dublinesque - Enrique Vila-Matas (Translated by Rosalind Harvey & Anne McLean) " 'Dublin?' she asks, surprised. ...

The Mulatta & Mister Fly - Miguel Angel Asturias As August has been united with July under the umbrella of #SpanishLitMonth (at Ca...

The Conformist - Alberto Moravia Translated by Angus Davidson " I shall flare up and then die down again without reason and with...

The Unfortunates - B.S.Johnson " How did I not realise when he said, Go and do City this week, that it was this city?             ...

Miss Lonelyhearts " The letters were no longer funny. He could not go on finding the same joke funny thirty times a day for month...

Lila - Marilynne Robinson " The child was just there on the stoop in the dark, hugging herself against the cold, all cried out and ...

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry - B.S. Johnson " It did not take him long to realise that he had not been born into money;...

The Gate - Natsume Sõseki (Translated by William F. Sibley) " They walked along through life together on the path toward death, l...