Story Title: 'Young Blood' by Jordan Taylor. Collection/Anthology?: Available as a stand-alone story. Details from the author's website. Briefly: It's the eve before a historic battle, and a young soldier writes a letter in the fading light of a … [Read more...]
About Rob
Rob, a self-confessed bibliophile, is without any hope of rehabilitation. He gets unnaturally excited over anything book-shaped, and if book sniffing were a crime then he would have been locked up years ago (which wouldn't bother him in the slightest provided his cell was lined with books)
Every book is a journey: Rob’s ‘reviewing system’ explained
May 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
Hopefully, one of the first things that you'll notice when you visit RobAroundBooks is that it's a little different to anything else that may already be out there in Internet land. And one of the ways in which I claim my uniqueness is in the way … [Read more...]
Rob @ 12 Books in 12 Months
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sorry for the interruption but I just wanted to give you an excitable 'heads up' to let you know that I'm being featured today in an interview with Ali George, on her most illustrious 12 Books in 12 Months website. So if you want to know a little … [Read more...]
Aharon Appelfeld wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012
May 15, 2012 By 3 Comments
The winner of this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was announced last night as Aharon Appelfeld, with his Holocaust novel, Blooms of Darkness (Alma Books); translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. Appelfeld's novel, which is based … [Read more...]
