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A life in books
Stoner – John Williams This is a book about a man, William Stoner, who enters the University of Missouri at the age of nineteen to study agriculture and never leaves. It charts his progression from...
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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? – Dave Eggers Dave Eggers is one of a rare breed of American writers (perhaps their leader?) capable of capturing complex emotional...
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Spoken Word: Please Write Immediately
Love Letters from the poets at the Southbank Centre As part of their Festival of Love, the Southbank Centre recently put on an event where Ben Lamb, Harriet Walter, Guy Paul, Laurel Lefkow and Jason...
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An Evening with Julian Barnes
JUSTICE “Law and Literature” event – 28 October 2014, Inner Temple Hall, London Last Wednesday the London-based human rights organisation, JUSTICE, held the first event in its “Law and Literature”...
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Spoken Word: Other Lives – Hilary Mantel in conversation with Harriet Walters...
Wolf Hall has just come off the London stage, and it is about to appear on ITV as a ten-part series starring Mark Rylance, adapted for the screen by Mantel, just as she oversaw the stage production....
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The Men and Women of Middlemarch: Part 1
“I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not...
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Review of the Year 2014
Fiction: Part 1 Welcome to Don’t Read Too Fast’s review of the year 2014. For those who have yet to experience our yearly extravaganza, our approach is not to give a list of the best books published...
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Dial M for Mass Market Appeal
Lee Child is clearly a talented writer. The first three chapters of Killing Floor constitute one of the most strident openings to a novel I can remember. Strident, which is to say, gripping and devoid...
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Justice for Thomas Cromwell
JUSTICE “Law & Literature” event – 11 February 2015, Great Hall, Middle Temple, London Three months ago, JUSTICE hosted their third event in what seems to be the increasingly popular “Law &...
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Gormenghast
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake This massive tale of a remote, gothic earldom is comprised of three novels published between 1946 and 1959. Peake was unable to realize his plans for further novels after his...
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Elena Ferrante, or Naples, Part Two
A panel discussion was held at Lutyens and Rubenstein on the eve of the release of the final novel in Ferrante’s Naples tetralogy. The panel was made up of Cathy Rentzenbrink, Jonathan Gibbs, Susanna...
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Man Booker Prize 2015: Readings
“This group shows what a broad church we are. Long may it remain so. ” Man Booker Prize Readings, 12th October 2015, Southbank Centre, London The night before the winner was announced, the six...
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Jonathan Franzen on Purity
An Evening with Jonathan Franzen: Intelligence Squared, 30 September 2015 At the end of last month, Intelligence Squared (the world’s “premier forum for debate and discussion”) hosted an evening of...
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Book Club Spy: A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life Harrowing is the word most commonly used in reviews and in conversation where A Little Life is involved. It is a word more commonly associated with a dreadful ordeal...
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