A break from the blog, but not the books. In no particular order:

• Fury, by Salman Rushdie
• Re-read The Rotter's Club, by Jonathan Coe, in order to recall sufficient detail of the character's lives to read...
• ...The Closed Circle, also by Jonathan Coe
• Lying on the Couch, by Irvin D. Yalom
• Other Lulus, by Philip Hensher
• And, by the same author: Kitchen Venom
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
• Hari Kunzru's second novel, Transmission
• And the Brighton-London commute is currently somewhat improved by the delicious Vanity Fair, by Mr Thackeray
• The very interesting Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
• Finally, also got into Prospect. Not a book, but a magazine.