‘I’ll send it anyway’, said the publicist when I intimated that Clemens Meyer and I didn’t gel. (I’d DNF’ed All…
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Whenever I mentioned that I was reading The Eighth Life, the inevitable response was ‘that’s some undertaking’. It was, and…
‘She went from being irritated, to exhausted, excited, worried, tired, annoyed, moved, disillusioned, impatient, distracted, tormented, concerned, offended, demoralised, and…
Am I reading a fairy tale? No, this is Munich, November 1918. In the political chaos following the German defeat…
As co-hostess of German Literature Month, November is, of course, the highlight of my reading year. Despite having over 200…
Daniel Kehlmann specialises in parody and subversion and I make a beeline for everything of his that gets translated. 2017…