Goodbye, Clive James – Every word was meant, every image was meaningful
A big name in the world of literature, Clive James, died on November 24, 2019, in Cambridge, UK. He wasContinue Reading
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Death Made Beautiful – Beirut Hellfire Society, by Rawi Hage
This is one those novels that will change the way you look at death and burial methods – and Beirut.Continue Reading
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June 8, 2018
Anthony Bourdain is dead – No more “food-poetry”
Anthony Bourdain is dead – he killed himself. His body was found in Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France, on Friday, June 8, 2018. HeContinue Reading
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This is what being old is really like – The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, by…?
There is a current trend for novels with long titles about eccentric old people: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed OutContinue Reading
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Forensic analysis of death – Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
Death is a difficult subject to write about, but particularly when it is not coincidental but core to a book’s theme orContinue Reading
Letting go at last – The Quarry, by Iain Banks
Three novels I recently read have a plot in common: an individual’s urge to ferret out the truth, come hellContinue Reading
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Death and the Flight of Birds in The Discworld – Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett
Death is a difficult subject to write about, but particularly when it is not coincidental but core to a book’s theme orContinue Reading
The Grass Was Singing – Goodbye Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing, the Zimbabwean-raised author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, died on 17 November 2013. Luckily forContinue Reading
