Apr 23, 2019Northern Ireland: the Booker and BeyondIn October of 2018, Anna Burns became the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize, with her Troubles-set novel...
Mar 15, 2019Book Launch: A Inglesa e o Marialva by Clara Macedo CabralLast night I had the pleasure of being at the Portuguese Ambassador’s Residence in London for the launch of Clara Macedo Cabral’s novel A...
Jun 29, 2017Corbyn, Achebe and OrwellWith chants of ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ ringing out around Glastonbury last weekend, the formerly unpopular Labour leader is the man of the...
May 17, 2017Athletic and the Chocolate BrownieFollowing on from the previous post, in this entry I am delighted to present my own translation of an extract from the novel discussed...
May 9, 2017Football, fiction and fameSport and fiction don’t always mix well. The attraction of sport is that the drama is real, truly unscripted and unpredictable;...
Apr 22, 2017Art, literature and underrated citiesFish and trees are alike (p7) Recently as part of a module on my masters course we were given an interesting task: we were let loose in...
