Review: The Traitor’s Niche, Ismail Kadare, Harvill Secker, 2017. Although newly translated by John Hodgson, The Traitor’s Niche was written between 1974 and 1976 and published in Albania in 1978: …
Interview: Alan Bilton and Jon Gower
Jon Gower speaks with Alan Bilton and attempts to unravel the mysteries of Bilton’s latest book, The Known and Unknown Sea. Dylan Thomas Center, Swansea
Essay: SUNRISE, AMERICA AND THE OTHER SIDE
In classical myth, the journey into the west is also the journey toward death, the westward horizon marking the setting of the sun and thus man’s own inevitable twilight.
Review: All for Nothing, Walter Kempowski
A Book Review by Alan Bilton: All for Nothing, a novel by the German writer Walter Kempowski – his last novel before he died in 2007.
Essay: On writing The Known and Unknown Sea
Novelist Alan Bilton gives us some insights into the writing and inspiration behind his second novel The Known and Unknown Sea.