Deborah Levy

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My Books of 2022

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ January 3, 2023 ⋅ 1 Comment

Hello and happy new year! After a four-year tsunami of personal crap no novelist would get away with in a book, 2022 was a really eventful and positive year for me and I’m grateful and relieved to have made it to the next chapter. Among the highlights were a fantastic in-person launch party I didn’t … Continue reading →

Reading in the interest of writing

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ October 25, 2022 ⋅ Leave a comment

When I set out to write this as a regular round-up and it felt really flat I put it down to being out of practice – followers of the blog may have noticed that I haven’t been showing up much lately. Then it occurred to me that these aren’t just any books and I needed … Continue reading →

Book Launches & Black Vodka

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ March 5, 2013 ⋅ 6 Comments

‘You go to a lot of book launches,’ people say to me. It’s true. It’s one of the many wonderful things, all the more so for being totally unexpected, which have come about since I started the Literary Sofa blog. The timing was just right too because my sons were old enough to be left … Continue reading →