Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 October 2015

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 88

Featuring far too many instances of the word 'sensuous' (and variants) - which ought seriously to've been reconsidered and/or edited when Derek Jacobi was booked to do the audio.

Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Favourite footnotes: 3

Responding to the publication of the book One Hundred Authors Against Einstein, a work ostensibly directed at his physics, Albert Einstein said, 'If I were wrong, then one would have been enough.'
- Zia Haider Rahman, In The Light Of What We Know

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Books I've actually finished lately: 41























Longlisted - without the ugly sticker - for the Man Booker Prize 2014.

Also wins the ASH Smyth Prize for most uses of 'fuccan cunt' in an historical novel. (Probably.)