Stravaig.J’s Book 2: White Teeth (2000) by Zadie SmithIt’s 2 pm in the afternoon, approximately ten hours before I finally have to depart for Oxford. I need to finish this review of White Teeth…Oct 15, 2021Oct 15, 2021
Stravaig.Z’s Book 2: White Teeth (2000) by Zadie SmithGoogle will tell you that White Teeth is Zadie Smith’s stunning debut written and published when she was still a student at Cambridge, and…Oct 15, 2021Oct 15, 2021
Stravaig.J’s Book #1: Refugee Tales (2016), Edited by David Herd & Anna PincusThe ending of ‘The Detainee’s Tale’, told to Ali Smith, stopped me right in my tracks:Sep 16, 2021Sep 16, 2021
Stravaig.Z’s Book#1: The Lonely Londoners (1956), by Sam SelvonThe Lonely Londoners, published in 1956, is a novel/novella written by Sam Selvon, Trinidadian author and one of the key literary voices…Sep 13, 2021Sep 13, 2021
Stravaig.Welcome!Great writers are often wanderers and sojourners. William Wordsworth famously ‘wandered lonely as a cloud’, but so did his equally…Sep 13, 2021Sep 13, 2021