Sketchbook
June 29, 2014
Evening sketches
June 22, 2014
End of the book year 2013/14
June 15, 2014
If you were here last year, you’ll know it all kicked off with Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht. It finished with The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen. Forty-nine books in all (down on last year), here are the highlights:
The Book of Dave by Will Self in July
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories in August (The Accordion and the Fish Town Hayashi Fumiko and Night Fires Shiga Naoya)
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xialong in September
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn December
Pepita by Vita Sackville-West January
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates January
A lowlight;The Accidental by Ali Smith in March
but, Book of the Year 2013/14 is…..
Agent ZigZag by Ben MacIntyre
What a story.
2014/15 has begun with The Book of Flights by J.M.G. Le Clezio
The boy who won’t sit
June 8, 2014
Losing something on the way
June 1, 2014
outside authority 