Tony's Reading List

Too lazy to be a writer - too egotistical to be quiet

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Welcome to Japanese Literature Challenge 7!

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It's June, which means that it's time for Bellezza's Japanese Literature Challenge 7 !  As a new blogger, this challenge four...
Friday, 31 May 2013

May 2013 Wrap-Up

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May has been an unexpectedly busy month - but I have nobody to blame for it but myself.  I decided to educate myself a little in the area of...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

'The Savage Detectives' by Roberto Bolaño (Review)

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The latest in my series of library-sourced Spanish-language books is one by probably the biggest name in Latin-American literature at the ...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

'Mother Departs' by Tadeusz Różewicz (Review)

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Stork Press is a relatively new London-based publisher, one with an eastern-European slant, but focusing particularly on Polish books (th...
Sunday, 26 May 2013

'Fictions' by Jorge Luis Borges (Review)

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Today's post features another stop on my Spanish-language literature self-education journey (courtesy of my wonderful library), and it...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

'The Light and The Dark' by Mikhail Shishkin (Review)

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After reading (and loving) Maidenhair a while back, I was keen to try more of Mikhail Shishkin's work, hoping that another book woul...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013

The Official IFFP 2013 Winner - And Some Reflections...

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Yesterday, in London, at a ceremony sparkling brighter than a pixie's bling collection, the five brave IFFP judges announced their cho...
Monday, 20 May 2013

And the (Shadow) IFFP 2013 Winner Is...

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We started off in March with sixteen titles, the cream of the fiction in translation published in the UK last year.  After a hard month of...
Thursday, 16 May 2013

'Blue Bamboo' by Osamu Dazai (Review)

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Back at the start of the year, during my January in Japan event, Patrick of my so-called research wrote a J-Lit Giants piece on Osamu D...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

'Popular Hits of the Showa Era' by Ryu Murakami (Review)

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Welcome, one and all - it's time for more Murakami madness from Pushkin Press !  After giving me a copy of Coin Locker Babies to revi...
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