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Shiny New Books 9

April 8, 2016By Rob Spence • Posted in Uncategorized Tags: – Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel, Shennan, Shiny New Books • No Comments

The new edition of Shiny New Books is now available online, containing reviews of many exciting and intriguing books. A few of my reviews are in there, including the entertaining and scholarly account of the British in Malaya, Out in the Midday Sun, by Margaret Shennan; Laura Feigel’s fascinating follow-up to The Love-Charm of Bombs,… Continue reading Shiny New Books 9

The Finkler Question

September 3, 2010By Rob Spence • Posted in Uncategorized Tags: – Anthony Burgess, Howard Jacobson, IABF, The Finkler Question • 1 Comment

To the new headquarters of the IABF for the first in its series of events with contemporary writers. Mancunian Howard Jacobson was presenting his latest novel, The Finkler Question . What an excellent speaker and reader he is! Too often, writers are not actually terribly good at reading their own stuff, as students in my… Continue reading The Finkler Question