Tony's Reading List

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

Sunday, 9 March 2014

IFFP 2014 - The Longlist

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Well, the list has finally been announced (shame I was on holiday at the time...), and we have a new fifteen contenders vying to take ou...
Thursday, 6 March 2014

'No One Writes Back' by Jang Eun-jin (Review)

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After going back to the 1930s for my first dip into Dalkey Archive's Library of Korean Literature , a balancing look at modern Korea...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

'The Good Life Elsewhere' by Vladimir Lorchenkov (Review)

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Whether it's Asian boat people sent to Papua New Guinea by a heartless Australian government or phantom Romanians and Bulgarians invad...
Sunday, 2 March 2014

'Ekaterini' by Marija Knežević (Review)

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It's time for another offering from a small publisher dealing with literature in translation, and today's book comes courtesy of I...
Saturday, 1 March 2014

February 2014 Wrap-Up

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February was a fairly quiet month, with a few review copies and even some rereading helping me to relax before things get busy again.  Ye...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

IFFP 2014 - Longlist Predictions

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A week on Saturday, the longlist for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize will be announced, putting my anxious wait to an end (I t...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

'Romola' by George Eliot (Review)

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After spending some time in Renaissance Italy in Bound in Venice , I was eager to read more about the era, so I trudged off to my shelves ...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

'Bound in Venice' by Alessandro Marzo Magno (Review)

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I'm very much a lover of novels, and there's not an awful lot of non-fiction on my reading list.  However, when Europa Editions s...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

'Talking to Ourselves' by Andrés Neuman (Review)

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After the huge success of Traveller of the Century , many readers have been waiting anxiously for Andrés Neuman's next work to appear...
Monday, 17 February 2014

'Calling All Heroes' by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Review)

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Last year, when I was lucky enough to review two books by Japanese writer Tomoyuki Hoshino , the publishers ( PM Press ) were kind enough ...
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