Reluctantly, I am interrupting my Indian notebook (which will resume next week) because something else is about to happen. Now, what is it? Oh yes. This Thursday, the paperback edition of my novel Trading Futures is published – a year to the day after its hardback parent. [read more]
The Breaking of Eggs
David Aaronovitch meets Feliks Zhukovski
The Breaking of Eggs was a complicated attempt to answer a simple question: why do we believe what we believe? When, at a February meeting of the Prospect Book Club, I heard David Aaronovitch use exactly the same phrase to describe the issue he was addressing in his new book Party Animals, I was intrigued. In fact, I was already intrigued, which is why I was there. [read more]
Background to The Breaking of Eggs
The novel began with the abstract question “What is home?” and with the belief that home is an emotional concept that means very different things to different people. This led me to consider what it might be like to be aged about 60 and to have no concept of home. I tried to visualise such a character. [read more]
Jim Powell 