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I’ve just read My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh for Bookbrowse and very much enjoyed it. It’s first and foremost a piece of literary fiction. But Walsh steps up the tension and suspense in his novel by giving his reader a narrator who admits on page three that he is a suspect in the rape…
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I have been busy the last few months reading and writing for the Historical Novel Society. My reading highlights include: Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood. Beautifully written novel! Read my interview with Naomi here. Z is for Zelda, A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (loved it!) The Aviator’s Wife – the story of Anne Lindberg, wife…
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Yesterday the Historical Novel Society published my interview with British author/living legend Fay Weldon. Honestly it was less an interview than a Q&A but I was and am delighted by how her humour and personality came across in her answers. I contacted her through her publicist at her American publishing house and emailed off a…
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A few words or phrases I’ve not yet blogged about but are in the translation pipeline… egg salad = egg mayonnaise why I can’t say mayo hooking up consignment sales and charity shops cream, but not as we knew i
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Happy today to be asked to review The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri for the Historical Novel Society. I read about it for my article for the HNS on the Booker Longlist. Also, I’ve just seen it has a very different cover (and much less attractive!) on Amazon.com than on Amazon.co.uk. With my Transatlantic Translator hat on, I…
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Reading my short story Tuesday, at the Manyunk Arts Centre on Sunday June 9th at 3pm. Published in the Spring edition of the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Kate braithwaite 