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. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).
It consists of book reviews and more general articles about reading and currently receives over 10,000 unique visitors each month. So far 290 book reviews have been published. My currently-reading shelf:  This website is archived for posterity in the British Library's UK Web Archive 
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One of my favourite reading experiences was discovering Gerard Woodward’s trilogy about the dysfunctional Jones family, which reached a conclusion in its final part A Curious Earth which generated a long-lasting “Ahhh” and that rare feeling of total satisfaction that only a good book can bring. I was unimpressed with Gerard Woodward’s collection of short [...] Lindsay Clarke came to fame by winning the Whitbread Prize in 1989 with his novel, The Chymical Wedding. It has been a long wait for something as substantial in both scope and subject matter from this author, but The Water Theatre is every bit as complex a read as the earlier novel, weaving several themes [...] Update 13 October 2010. Depite my prediction below, The Finkler Question DID win the Booker Prize. My congratulations to Howard Jacobson . Howard Jacobson’s novel The Finkler Question is another Booker long-list selection, and I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t make the short-list, although my guess is that it won’t actually win the prize. Howard Jacobson [...] If ever there was a candidate for next year’s Booker Prize, then this is it. I’ve never heard of Lousie Dean before, even though The Old Romantic is her fourth novel. She won the Betty Trask award in 2004 for Becoming Strangers and has also been long-listed for the Booker while also winning the Guardian [...] I’ve read a lot of “substantial” books lately and for light relief, I planned to read two disaster books this summer – heck, we all deserve entertainment from time to time. What’s the point of being a reader if you can’t occasionally experience the page-turning momentum of a real thriller? The only problem is that [...] Slightly Foxed magazine (strapline: “the real reader’s quarterly”) consists of reviews and articles on largely out of print books. Each issue is a sort of journey of rediscovery. A typical article would cover a mid-20th century writer who was acclaimed at the time but is now largely forgotten. Sometimes the magazine goes further back in [...] I apologise to anyone who has received multiple updates for this post in Google Reader and other feed readers. I have experienced technical problems following a software upgrade which I have now fixed. I’ve been meaning to publish a of The Crimson Petal and The White (hereafter referred to as TCPATW!) for some time but [...] I enjoy reading novels with a culinary theme, such as John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure, Muriel Barbery’s The Gourmet, James Hamilton Paterson’s Cooking with Fernet Branca and quite a few others. I am not sure why so many of these books have a humorous side to them – is it that the authors see [...] One sentence summary An ingenious and witty account of one man’s fall (and rise?) aided by modern technology. Rating Five and half stars if that’s possible Review Jonathan Coe is known for many engaging and original books such as What a Carve Up, The House of Sleep and The Rotters’ Club (serialised on BBC Television), [...] |
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