Fictions

Jorges Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories, before his death in Geneva in June 1986. He was showered with awards throughout his lifetime, and is highly regarded by critics.

And yet.. again I wasn't grabbed by the narrative. Collections of some short stories, such as Graham Greene's manage to a produce some of the depth of characterisation one would expect in a full novel, in each story.

Unspeak

by Stephen Poole

After a so-so start, where he claims that phrases such as 'Friends of the Earth' are not so much misleading as much as verging on thought crimes, he gets going and really lays in to his real villan - the misuse of words as political weapons.

Overall original, concise and insightful.