Like many readers, we started the year with good intention of blitzing through the pile of new titles that were promised for the coming months, as well as making inroads into the backlog. And we genuinely got off to a good start with a string of fun K-thrillers, some of them new, some not: The … [Read More]
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Selected publications
- Bae Suah: Untold Night and Day tr Deborah Smith 2020
- Guy Delisle: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea 2006
Upcoming literature and fiction titles in 2020 [updated]
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I’m hoping that, as in previous years, by posting my own list of upcoming literature and fiction titles – pulled together by some targeted searching on Amazon and a trawl through Barbara J Zitwer’s website – I might persuade others to supplement it from their own specialist knowledge. Whatever happens, books inevitably fall through the … [Read More]
Guy Delisle: Pyongyang – A Journey in North Korea
Guy Delisle: Pyongyang – A Journey in North Korea Jonathan Cape, 2006 An account of a three-month work stint in Pyongyang at around the start of the Bush presidency, this book is neither particularly topical (it’s taken some time to be translated from the original French) nor well-titled. But it sure is original. We’ve read … [Read More]