All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr has won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book is a poignant story of a young boy and girl on different sides of World War 2. Marie-Laure, blind since she was six, and her father escape German occupied Paris to live on the…
Joyce Carol Oates is on top form with The Evil Eye
Ah, the things we do for love: Intimidate, belittle, assault, abuse, stalk, frighten, subjugate and occasionally kill. It’s not a pretty picture that Joyce Carol Oates paints in The Evil Eye, four novellas with the subtext of Love Gone Wrong. A prolific author, Oates puts out an average two books a year (albeit that some are collections of previously published,) as well as maintaining her position as a Professor of Humanities at Princeton. However, there is no evidence here of quality being traded off for quantity.
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…