Whilst Haruki Murakami and Karl Ove Knausgard are the highest profile authors nominated for the long list of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 it is the Germans who have dominated with five authors making the cut. It was a delight to see one of my favourite books from last year, The Giraffe’s Neck…
Happy new book year, there’s a full calendar of great reading
A new year and a whole mouthwatering world of fiction already lined up to be released over the next three months. That’s even if, like me, you still have a pile of must reads left over from 2014. Below are a few due out between now and the end of March.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (pub. Carcanet) about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the drug and gang wars of Jamaica in the 1970s.
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Random House): Family saga set
Fabulous line-up of new titles for 2014
2014 promises to be as rich a literary year as 2013 with new books due out from authors such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates (February), Emma Donoghue (April), Haruki Murakami and possibly Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, the third part of her Wolf…