Category Archives: fiction

Review: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

Posted on August 21, 2011 by blogmywiki

Caution: this review contains spoilers. This book is crap. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi was recommended to me by an old school friend. (To be clear: the school is old. She isn’t). And I hated it. Awkward, as they … Continue reading →

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HUNGRY the STARS and EVERYTHING

Posted on June 27, 2011 by blogmywiki

There’s a tagline on the back jacket of Emma Jane Unsworth’s first novel that is out of place: ‘Can Mr Wrong ever be Mr Right?’. This makes it sound like chick-lit, and it’s at odds with the rather sophisticated under-designed … Continue reading →

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Is ‘Nordic Noir’ really so strange?

Posted on May 22, 2011 by blogmywiki

I’ve just finished reading Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason – desperate to finish it so I can watch the film back. It’s another bit of ‘Nordic Noir’, so fashionable at the moment: Scandinavian crime fiction in the mould of Wallander … Continue reading →

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Bittersweet Lucy Ellman

Posted on April 10, 2011 by blogmywiki

Poorly, elderly parents abound. I was convinced the other week that there was a great quote from the writer Lucy Ellman about the death of one’s parents. It was sad, it was witty, it was pithy. It was up there … Continue reading →

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The Curious Case of Mr Faulks and Mr Fry

Posted on March 20, 2011 by blogmywiki

Mrs Wiki has been on at me for ages to read some Sebastian Faulks. Somehow, I never got round to it. I’m not as fascinated by the First World War as she is, and frankly, that Sebastian Faulks (Seb!) was … Continue reading →

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