The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Waguih Ghali's 1964 classic Beer in the Snooker Club -- apparently soon to be re-issued yet again, by Vintage.
[Aside: while this was fun, it feels like every other book I have picked up over the past month is by a suicide (including Kawabata, both Best Translated Book Award longlisted Stigs (Dagerman and Sæterbakken), and several more books I hurriedly cast aside ...). I could do with this being the last one I see for a while (though recent arrival Liveforever (!) by Andrés Caicedo looks too hard to resist; see the Penguin Classics publicity page or pre-order your copy at Amazon.co.uk; no US publisher yet.]
[Aside: while this was fun, it feels like every other book I have picked up over the past month is by a suicide (including Kawabata, both Best Translated Book Award longlisted Stigs (Dagerman and Sæterbakken), and several more books I hurriedly cast aside ...). I could do with this being the last one I see for a while (though recent arrival Liveforever (!) by Andrés Caicedo looks too hard to resist; see the Penguin Classics publicity page or pre-order your copy at Amazon.co.uk; no US publisher yet.]