Novel Thoughts - Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber and Faber, 2021)
Every year I teach a class in children's fiction. The most difficult reads for my students to enjoy are a particular ‘middle grade’ of...
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David Savill
- Jun 26, 2022
- 4 min
Novel Thoughts - Natasha Brown, Assembly (Penguin 2022)
Elsewhere in this blog I have asserted with the (false?) confidence of a creative writing teacher, that a novel can be defined as nothing...
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David Savill
- Jun 19, 2022
- 3 min
Novel Thoughts - Antonio Tabbucchi, Requiem: an hallucination (Penguin 1994)
It is nearly always dull to hear other people’s dreams recounted, partly, because in dreams there are no dramatic stakes. Whatever...
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David Savill
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Novel Thoughts: Sandro Veronesi - The Hummingbird (W&N 2022)
If I was asked to demonstrate the potential of the novel to someone who has never read one before, I might suggest The Hummingbird. This...
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David Savill
- May 29, 2022
- 3 min
Novel Thoughts: Antal Szerb - Journey By Moonlight (1937, Pushkin Press 2001)
Novel thoughts is a blog of my immediate reactions to reading a novel. This is not a critical review or recommendation, but the first...
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