Kirkup

Saturday's Guardian ran an obituary on our author James Kirkup.

Review

This past January The Tablet ran a review on Empire of the Sikhs.

James Kirkup

We were sorry to learn that one of our most illustrious authors, James Kirkup - poet, translator, travel writer and scourge of the National Viewers and Listeners Association - died on the 10th May 2009. Obituarues from the Times and Telegraph follow.


Times
Telegraph

Two New Reviews

The Sikh Messenger, a quarterly UK magazine, featured a book review of Empire of the Sikhs by Patwant Singh and Jyoti M. Rai. Also reviewed was Villa Fleurie by Deanna Maclaren in the June-August edition of Overseas magazine.

Idle Years Review

This past sunday the Balkan Chronicle published a review of Orhan Kemal's The Idle Years.

James Purdy

On March 13th Peter Owen author James Purdy, a prolific and controversial writer, passed away at the age of 94.


The Telegraph
The Guardian
The Scotsman
The Huffington Post
The Times

We were pleased to see that Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, reviewed The Idle Years by Orhan Kemal.