Category: Review of modern fiction

by M. Bijman June 11, 2018

A long trip without a decent map – A Long Way From Home, by Peter Carey

I have been to Australia twice, once on a holiday with a mishap and a second time on a holidayContinue Reading

by M. Bijman April 30, 2018

The mystery over who “Hendrik Groen” is, continues. Groen is the pseudonym of a Dutch author who has produced twoContinue Reading

by M. Bijman January 4, 2018

Taking a lesson from one of my favourite bloggers, Seth Godin, I am from now on going to compact myContinue Reading

by M. Bijman December 20, 2017

I did not think that I would get tired of reading the heavily stylized and very British English of StephenContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 26, 2017

Prue Leith, as Anglophiles and food show fans would know, replaced Mary Berry as the co-judge with Paul Hollywood whenContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 16, 2017

In popular author Kathy Lette’s latest novel, Best Laid Plans, her writing style is a torrent of words, which you eventuallyContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 7, 2017

There is a current trend for novels with long titles about eccentric old people: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed OutContinue Reading

by M. Bijman October 12, 2017

Julian Barnes October 8 at 7:03pm · Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, on Julian Barnes’s novel The Noise of TimeContinue Reading

by M. Bijman September 13, 2017

Update In June 2017 it was announced that the Italian production company Cattleya had picked up the rights for theContinue Reading

by M. Bijman May 13, 2017

Sometimes a novel just flummoxes me. I have tried my best to get to grips with “J” by Howard Jacobson, whichContinue Reading

Madly (2016) April 30, 2018
“Nobody dies of love, do they?” What is that you’re feeling? The love of another – be it a person or a god – is one of the primary drivers of creative output in this world. Poets, painters, philosophers, songwriters, and scribes have long attempted to put love into words or music or images, with varying degrees of success. In the comparatively brief history […]
10 Women of Title Design – Part Four March 8, 2018
In 2015, we published our first feature article in celebration of International Women’s Day entitled 10 Women of Title Design. We have returned each year since with a new group of 10 women in the title design industry to celebrate. This year, we are ecstatic to present another 10!Here at Art of the Title, our mission is to champion the great work of title de […]