The Bibliophilic Blogger

I have, so far, read only the preface to Nigel Smith's new biography of Andrew Marvell but, if it is anything like his splendid annotat...

The publication of Bruce Chatwin's letters, Under the Sun , edited by his wife Elizabeth Chatwin and his biographer, Nicholas Shakespear...

Well, he did win the Goncourt and, unlike the Man Booker where the right people so often win with the wrong book here is a case where the ri...

In complete contrast to the noise that surrounds the productions of Michel Houellebecq (see below) the French writer Jean Echenoz, whose boo...

Any day now they will be announcing the results of the Prix Goncourt, whose recent prize winners, I have to say, have been more interesting ...

About eighteen months ago I installed a stat counter on this blog and I see that I have at last exceeded 20,000 hits since then.  Thank you ...

Later this month a book, Writers in Black and White,  is published  which includes interviews with a range of contemporary British authors, ...