“Venetian Notebook” by Àlex Sussana “The pleasure of reading a newspaper is that which arises from being in the written company of an author and listening to him in his daily life, as the novelist Javier Marías said yesterday at the presentation of the book Venetian Notebook.” Extracted from El Pais. See also: http://www2.seix-barral.es/fichaautor.asp?autor=438 http://www.llull.tv/poetarium/detall.cfm/ID/26846/ESP/alex-susanna.html http ://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80lex_Susanna_i_Nadal Selected titles
“Driving home: an American journey” by Jonathan Raban “For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America.” Extracted
“Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaar” by Paul Theroux “Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and traveled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey – “The Great Railway Bazaar” – was a landmark book and made his name of him as the foremost