Sjón is an Icelandic poet and novelist and a regular lyricist for Björk. He also wrote the lyrics for Lars Von Trier’s film Dancer in the Dark. His quirky, multi-layered approach to writing is e… more →
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Continuing my 20 Questions… series, this time with poet, playwright and debut novelist Gabriel … more →
wrote 7 months ago: I was lucky enough to receive an advance proof of Grazyna Plebanek’s first novel to be transla … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Sjón First Sentence: I, Valdimar Haraldsson, was in my twenty-seventh year when I embarked on th … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Sjón is an Icelandic poet and novelist and a regular lyricist for Björk. He also wrote the lyrics fo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Sjón First Sentence: I was on my way home from the hunt. From the Mouth of the Whale is a great, ba … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Title: The Cloud Messenger Author: Aamer Hussein Publisher: Telegram Books Genre: Literary Fiction I … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Part of the pleasure of reading literary fiction in translation is that it enriches our understandin … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Telegram £7.99 Originally published in the Independent on Sunday, 13 March 2011 Aamer Hussein is bes … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Whew, good morning and good day. Yesterday I couldn’t bear to write a post for this blog – it wasn’t … more →
wrote 2 years ago: All My Friends Are Superheroes Andrew Kaufman £7.99 Telegram Books It’s been a long time since … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Originally published in the Independent on 23 February 2011 Mischa Hiller’s assured debut, Sab … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Bi Feiyu’s account of three sisters struggling to survive in the aftermath of China’s Cu … more →
wrote 3 years ago: On Wednesday evening I found myself trudging home late at night through the kind of incessant downpo … more →
wrote 3 years ago: There’s something intriguingly slapdash about Pauline Melville’s new novel, Eating Air. … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Another Monday is upon us… *yawn*. Fortunately, this week should be a bit more exciting than … more →
wrote 4 years ago: 22 May 2009 …if you poke around a little on a regular basis. From a post at RobAroundBooks, a … more →
wrote 4 years ago: If it hadn’t been for the lovely people at Telegram Books emailing me to see if I would like to read … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Wow. The premise of the book goes something like this: All Tom’s friends really are superhero … more →