2016 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, Crime and Punishment. To celebrate, Leeds University is holding a Dostoevsky Day on the 19th of February and I’ll be taking part. It seemed like a good excuse to read the novel again, especially as Penguin have recently published a new translation. And the translator, …
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It’s possible that every now and then someone stumbles on this blog entirely by accident. Looking for something else – I can’t begin to guess what – you find this. Me. I can only apologise. In all likelihood, you will speed-click back to google. Get the hell out of there! It’s some writer’s blog! If …
Okay, I was amazon checking again. I know, I know. I should be past that by now. But I was just checking out the amazon page for A Gentle Axe and I discovered something rather interesting, and a little wonderful. Listed among the Other Items Customers Buy After Viewing This Item was Crime and Punishment. …
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Elizabeth A. White, whose book review blog is subtitled “The musings of an all purpose monkey”, has written a great review of A Razor Wrapped In Silk. Amongst other nice things, she said this: “The investigations make for a great detective story in and of themselves but, as with the previous two entries in the …
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Russian travel company, ULKO Tours, has published a blog post about St Petersburg’s literary connections. You know the sort of thing, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky… and me! I was very flattered to find myself included in such company – even more so to be mentioned in the same paragraph as J.M. Coetzee!