Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Those of us who have never lived in a dictatorship can't easily imagine what it must have been like.
I just cast my mind back to my schooldays.
Those of us who have never lived in a dictatorship can't easily imagine what it must have been like.
Next, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Baker's Dozen. I like F P-K, she can write, she's smart, she's posh, and she's very mucky. What's not to enjoy?
John Steinbeck - The Wayward Bus.
I'm reading it very slowly to absorb every word, because it creates scenes of such delicacy that it has to be savoured, and I have a first edition that a friend gave me, so the whole experience is very indulgent.
well, in July 2002, Fiona Pitt-Kethley moved with her family from Hastings to a half-finished house in southern Spain as it says here
I can't get on with Hemingway though,
So she lasted how long after you moved in?I know. She used to live next door to my house
Indeed. His books aren't really to my taste (much better in French translation than in English FWIW), he used to run a "jazz kissaten" and is a big fan of JBLs Miho is a big Murakami fan, ergo...Just finished reading Murakami's Kafka on the Shore (there's a lot of Murakami in this thread...). Excellent.