Five novels with a real sense of place to explore from your living room: Dudarev Mikhail via Shutterstock Everybody knows the concept of “desert island books”, the novels you might pack if you were going to be marooned on a desert island. Thanks to the pandemic, many of us are indeed now marooned, except that …
DM Thomas’s The White Hotel and why some novels are ‘unfilmable’: Babi Yar: the World War II atrocity is one of the themes of The White Hotel. GoldbergShalom There have been several attempts over the years to make a movie out of DM Thomas’s critically acclaimed 1981 novel, The White Hotel. But despite the involvement …
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘novels of great emotional force’: An annual cycle of intrigue and speculation, followed by the denouement – at which point the whole knotty process come to a head. Not the sagas of the political party conference season, but the perennially shocking announcement of the Nobel Laureate in …
Terry Pratchett’s unfinished novels crushed by a steamroller: Terry Pratchett fans might want to look away now. The late fantasy author's hard drive, containing what is thought to be a mix of ten unfinished and unpublished novels, has been destroyed in line with Pratchett's wishes. : Weird News Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?