Chris Somerville
Chris Somerville is a former member of the Readings online team. He is the author of a short-story collection, We Are Not The Same Anymore.
Review — 26 Feb 2014
The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein
The stories in The Secret Maker of the World span different time periods, transporting readers across the world, from Lebanon to Australia, to China. We meet a mayor facing down…
Review — 25 Mar 2014
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
First published in 2007, Teju Cole’s novella is now available for the first time outside of Nigeria. It’s difficult to view this work without considering his brilliant debut novel, Open…
Blog post — 5 Nov 2013
Gabrielle Carey chats to Chris Somerville about Moving Among Strangers
Gabrielle Carey talks to Chris Somerville about the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow, the secrets families keep and her new memoir,
‘One night I dreamt I saw Randolph Stow. He was…
Blog post — 17 Sep 2013
Five Notable Uses of Music In Breaking Bad
Chris Somerville talks about some of his music highlights in the television drama,
Currently I’m trying to catch up on Breaking Bad before the season ends and everyone talks about…
Blog post — 3 Feb 2013
The lies we tell, you and I
Chris Somerville writes on the anxieties of literary taste, and the lies we tell to cover them.
When I was around nineteen or in my early twenties, I went into…