Showing posts with label Jonathan Cape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Cape. Show all posts
Monday, 8 February 2016
Sunday, 10 May 2015
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Books I've actually finished lately: 69
All his life, Dave had been bald.- Stephen Collins
Barely a hair anywhere on his person at all.
(Bar the bristles in his brows... and one under his nose)
But apart from those,
Dave was as smooth as a bowling ball.
(Hence the wig.)
Monday, 10 November 2014
Saturday, 9 August 2014
Books I've actually finished lately: 42
Fictional counterpart to (much of) Rana Dasgupta's Capital: a Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Delhi?
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Books I've actually finished lately: 37
You suffered a bout of nostalgia while writing the chapter on Noor Begum. You wanted to write about the awkward squats as you sat loudly reciting the Qur'an, say how your left foot felt grinded from bearing all your weight while sitting on the floor, the rapid tak-tak of the ceiling fan as it spun the air with its dusty blades, the dizziness... But you wrote: 'Noor Begum's house provided the comfortable environment for Qur'an lessons and my early lessons in disciplining into working through boredom.
Friday, 27 June 2014
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