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Jim Crace is the author of many books, including Quarantine, which won the 1997 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in Birmingham, England. To find out more about his books visit his official website at http://www.jim-crace.com.
Photograph © Tim Wainwright. Permission requested
The Devil's Larder
A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire.
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Jim Crace's Summer Reading List
The Truth about Dogs
by Stephen Budiansky
Not another sentimental indulgence for pet lovers, I’m told, but a genuine work of natural history which analyses the ancestry and social conventions of the world’s most successful --- and most endearing --- parasite.
Goshawk
by T.H. White
I reread this classic work of natural history every few years even though I am uneasy with the practice of “taming” and training birds of prey. White was a troubled soul, lonely and obsessive --- but this record of the tussle of wills between man and bird is learned, beautiful and immensely sad.
A Memory of War
by Frederick Busch
Fred Busch is one of America’s great writers --- unflinching in his analysis, and unstinting in the generosity of his prose. This latest novel will not be published until next January, but I’m lucky enough to have got hold of an Advance Reader’s Copy.
Marcovaldo
by Italo Calvino
I’m a long-term Calvino fan. I’d happily abandon my own seven novels just to have been the author of Invisible Cities, his masterpiece. Marcovaldo is the only Calvino work which I haven’t yet read. It’ll be a treat.
Gould's Book of Fish
by Richard Flanagan
The critics either loved or loathed this Australian novel. I’m attracted by the title, the illustrations, and, of course, the natural history subject matter. But I suspect I’m going to be disappointed by the narrative itself.
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