The Editor - December 16th, 2011
We wrote quite a few months ago about our hugely exciting acquisition What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by rising star Nathan Englander. This selection of short stories is due to be published in February and anticipation is already building on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week, Cressida Leyshon interviewed Nathan on the particular subject of his collection’s obvious nod to Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love in The New Yorker. To read the interview in The New Yorker click here In January, we will be posting a preview…
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The Editor - December 1st, 2011
Next Thursday 8 December sees the publication of Breakfast at the Hotel Deja Vu by Paul Torday. This exciting new novella is only available as an eBook, for the princely sum of just 99p, and we’re giving you the opportunity to read the opening here on the blog.
‘The view from the window of his hotel room was just as he had hoped it would be. Twenty feet below Bobby’s window was the decking of a sun terrace. Faded white umbrellas sheltered sets of wooden chairs and round tables. He opened the window and leaned out to obtain a better view. He could glimpse the tops of the heads of a few people who were enjoying the afternoon sunshine, or else sitting in the shade reading newspapers. Beyond the decking, wide stone steps led down into a sort of garden: a garden in the Mediterranean manner, of course, with few flowers and a number of bushes and shrubs dotted around an area of scruffy brown grass. A gravel path meandered through this undistinguished space and then disappeared between two tall cypresses. He knew somehow that this path descended to the rocky seashore and then followed its line around the promontory to the headland. There were no other buildings in sight, just an uninterrupted view of the blue sea…
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