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Category Archives: What I Read
What I Read In June
The best book this month was Andrew Miller’s PURE. I’m a huge fan of his work and this is one of the most sensual novels I’ve read in a long time, telling the story of an 18th century engineer in France who is charged with clearing a graveyard. The hardback is a beautiful book too.
What I Read In May
And if there are 2 better novels published during 2011 than Jane Harris’ GILLESPIE AND I and Patrick Ness’ A MONSTER CALLS, then they will have to be very, very good books indeed…
What I Read In April
Lots of great Irish novels this month – Anne Enright’s new book is a deeply involving account of the effect an affair has on a young woman and her family. Roddy Doyle’s collection of stories are brilliant as ever and often very funny. Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace is going to be a big hit when it’s released later this year. And Philip Hensher, whose Northern Clemency was my favourite novel of 2008 returned with the complex and captivating King of the Badgers. Hensher is a supremely gifted novelist. It’s time for me to go back and read all his early novels.
What I Read In March
I used to post my monthly reading on the blog but couldn’t for most of the last 8 months as I was judging the IMPAC Award. Now that all the books have been read and judging is well underway, I can read my own choices of books again – hurrah! And this was a great month, including an advance copy of Sebastian Barry’s new novel, an enthralling novel of Herman Melville’s life by Jay Parini, David Szalay’s powerful and lyrical Spring – he is really one of the best young British writers working today – and Monica Ali’s funny, unsettling and curious imagining of where Princess Diana might be today had she faked her own death. Amongst a bunch of other good novels and stories.
