Showing posts with label Paul Kingsnorth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Kingsnorth. Show all posts

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.)

Friday, 18 July 2014

Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 11

fnaerettan - (Old English) snoring

[at least according to Paul Kingsnorth, and the 'shadow' glossary of The Wake]