Rather fantastically I have had nothing much else to do on holiday apart from read and swim and one of the literary highlights of the past fortnight in Portugal has been Banana Yoshimoto's novella Kitchen.
It's a love story. Of sorts. Its a bit adolescent, a bit magical, a bit brooding and it's pretty bloody splendid.
Mark Thomas' As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela, which is part-expose and part diary of his experiences exposing the iniquities of the arms trade, is also a good if at times disturbing read. And Rupert Thompson´s thriller Soft is also compelling stuff. I will be buying everything else the latter has written on my return.
The holiday so far has had many other highlights, all of which will be documented on my return...
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