After a long period of reading either novels or non-fiction, I have been reading some short story collections recently, possibly a result of my slightly shorter attention span in recent weeks. I...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2020/06/28/three-short-story-collections-ive-read-recently/
I’ve been a bit out of the loop with translated fiction in the last few months as non-fiction seems to have taken over my reading recently and I am currently shadowing the Wellcome Book Prize. ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/03/17/the-man-booker-international-prize-longlist-2019/
I really enjoyed watching the HBO TV mini-series adaptation of ‘Olive Kitteridge’ last year and have been keen to read the original book by Elizabeth Strout which won the Pulitzer Prize for F...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/02/17/olive-kitteridge-by-elizabeth-strout/
I have an ever-growing list of books I want to read which will be published in 2019, even though it is extremely unlikely I will get round to all of them in the next 12 months and more will inevi...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2019/01/06/my-most-anticipated-books-of-2019/
By coincidence, I have recently read two collections of short fiction by two of my favourite authors which bring together stories united around specific themes. ‘Property’ is Lionel Shriver�...
The blurb of ‘You Think It, I’ll Say It’ describes the unifying themes of Curtis Sittenfeld’s first collection of short stories as “how even the cleverest people tend to misread others,...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/05/27/you-think-it-ill-say-it-by-curtis-sittenfeld/
Happy new year! Without further ado, here is a selection of 20 upcoming titles I will be looking out for in 2018 (publication dates where known apply to the UK): Among non-fiction titles, 21 Les...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2018/01/07/my-most-anticipated-books-of-2018/
‘The Lucky Ones’ by Julianne Pachico is described as a novel by its US publishers whereas it has been billed as a collection of interlinked short stories in the UK where it has recently been ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/11/12/the-lucky-ones-by-julianne-pachico/
‘Fresh Complaint’ is a collection of 10 short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides. The first and last stories in the collection, ‘Complainers’ and ‘Fresh Complaint’, are new and have never b...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/10/15/fresh-complaint-by-jeffrey-eugenides/
‘Men Without Women’ by Haruki Murakami is the renowned Japanese author’s first new collection of short stories to be translated into English in over a decade. Echoing Ernest Hemingway’s c...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/06/18/men-without-women-by-haruki-murakami/
Translated from the Korean by last year’s Man Booker International Prize winner Deborah Smith ‘The Accusation’ by Bandi is a collection of seven short stories by a pseudonymous author who r...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/02/25/the-accusation-by-bandi/
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Eileen generated a very mixed reaction among readers last year. However, I was one of those who really enjoyed (if that’s the right word) her ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/01/15/homesick-for-another-world-by-ottessa-moshfegh/
A new year means new books are coming! Here is a selection of books I will be looking out for which are due to be published in the United Kingdom in 2017: The early months of the year tend to …...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2017/01/03/new-books-coming-soon-in-2017/
Following the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall‘ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies‘, the final part of Mantel’s acclaimed trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell, ‘The Mirror and the Light...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2014/11/01/the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher-by-hilary-mantel/
Haruki Murakami is one of my favourite authors but after reading all three volumes of ‘1Q84‘ when I finished my degree, I decided to take a break from his writing for a while. Somehow, two y...
For me, one of the great things about literary awards is discovering the work of authors which might otherwise have passed me by. The Man Booker Prize longlist, for example, recently brought Jh...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2013/09/14/interpreter-of-maladies-and-the-namesake-by-jhumpa-lahiri/
I am probably not going to have the chance to read Jhumpa Lahiri’s Man Booker Prize longlisted novel ‘The Lowland’ any time soon as it isn’t due to be published in the UK until the end of...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2013/08/04/unaccustomed-earth-by-jhumpa-lahiri/
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a collection of short stories so when Lydia Davis won the Man International Booker Prize earlier this year, I decided to investigate her work. Over t...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2013/07/12/the-collected-stories-of-lydia-davis/
Having access to new university libraries means that I occasionally visit the fiction section and borrow books to read on the train while I commute (and when I say occasionally, I really mean pre...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2012/11/14/first-love-last-rites-by-ian-mcewan/