Entertaining and intriguing - if the dear reader can be persuaded to overlook the fatuous and needy title and its horrid, self-promoting exclamation mark.
Catalogue of the recent exhibition of her ravishing pictures at the Redfern Gallery, where her work can be seen to shift from precise line drawing to abstraction and colour, culminating in l... read more
A few strange hours in the troubled life of a teenage boy: another short, mysterious novel from the author of Lanny and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
The first work of non-fiction by a very fine novelist ('The Western Wind', 'All is Song', etc) is lit with her characteristic intelligence and clarity of expression. Distilled bleakness.
The author is Anatoly Kuznetsov, who grew up in Kiev. He documented as a boy the appalling massacre of Jews, Ukrainians and Russians by Nazi forces in 1941. First published in Russian (in a ... read more