Books

Bookends: Venice improper

25 June 2011 10:00 am

Books about Venice are almost as numerous as gondolas on the Grand Canal, but Robin Saikia is the first to…

Bookends: When will there be good news?

18 June 2011 10:00 am

I am in love with Jackson Brodie. Does this mean that, in a literary homoerotic twist, I am actually in…

Bookends: Lowe and behold

11 June 2011 10:00 am

It is 1979. You are a 15-year-old boy starring in a hit US television show. You’ve seen the crowds of…

Bookends: Bloodbath

4 June 2011 10:00 am

It may have been first published in 1973, but reading it again in Persephone Books’ elegant re-print, Adam Fergusson’s The…

Bookends

28 May 2011 10:00 am

In the summer of 2003, in a bar in Malta, George Best was approached by a man holding a paper…

Bookends: The voice of the lobster

21 May 2011 10:00 am

In existence for over 250 millions years, lobsters come in two distinct varieties, ‘clawed and clawless’. Human predators tend to…

Bookends: Unbalanced chorus

14 May 2011 10:00 am

Imagine a 77-year-old woman hanging around, say, Leicester bus station, telling people about her life. She confides her belief that…