Normblog 'Writers Choice': writers writing about books.
David Aaronovitch on some of the books in his life.
Andrew Anthony on The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.
Sarah Baxter on An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon
Pamela Bone on Saturday by Ian McEwan
Nick Cohen on Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
Clive Davis on Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer
Katie Fforde on Electricity by Victoria Glendinning
Anne Fine on Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare, and Stuart: a life backwards by Alexander Masters
Jonathan Freedland on In the Land of Israel by Amos Oz
Linda Grant on The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
Ramachandra Guha on Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
Gideon Haigh on Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Sophie Hannah on The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Susan Hill on Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
Christopher Hitchens on How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Doug Ireland on the work of Michel Onfray
Morag Joss on Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Anthony Julius on Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell
John Lloyd on Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
Val McDermid on books that have influenced her
Mark Mason on Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann
Alex Massie on Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell
Sophie Masson on The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun by Hergé
Linda Newbery on Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Sally Prue on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Philip Pullman on the novels of MacDonald Harris
Dina Rabinovitch on Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History by James S. Olson
George Szirtes on Soul by Andrey Platonov
Andrew Taylor on Armadale and No Name by Wilkie Collins
Jean Ure on Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Minette Walters on King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, and Dracula by Bram Stoker
Michael Walzer on The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
Francis Wheen on Capital by Karl Marx
Camilla Wright on 'Justice At Night' by Martha Gellhorn
1 Comments:
Much to my amazement, when Caroline Moorehead's edited Martha Gellhorn's letters for publication it transpited that "Justice At Night" was a work of fiction.
"Eleanor Roosevelt, a college friend of Gellhorn's mother, admired the lynching article, and Martha explained, giddily and lamely, that she was "getting a little mixed-up around now and apparently I am a very realistic writer (or liar), because everyone assumed I'd been an eye-witness to a lynching whereas I just made it up.""
http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_05.html
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