Charles Lambert

Novelist, occasional poet, civil partner, reluctant resident in central Italy, unshakeable believer in the power of doubt

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Hello again

It’s been far too long since I wrote anything here and I apologise to anyone who might have been wondering what I’ve been up to in the past year and a half. Briefly, like that of most people, my life has been shaped (misshaped?) by Covid-19. Living in Italy, I was among the first to feel the practical effects of the pandemic, with a lockdown that began on 8 March. You can read about my reactions…

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Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.          

Source           

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The Hierarchy of The Angels, 2007

Anselm Kiefer

paint, clay, ash, chalk, iron, cotton and linen dresses on panel

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David Bowie and his wife Iman in 1992, the year they married. Check this blog!

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Nantes.

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August Macke, Farmboy at Tegernsee,1910 

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Self Portrait, 1942, Pierre Bonnard

Medium: oil,canvas

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Louise Bourgeois 

 Femme maison (1946)

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recent thoughts about recent things

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The Children's Home turned 3 today!

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Concrete and steel

The apartment we’re renting in the Landstrasse district of Vienna is more or less halfway between an immense drum-like tower and the Wittgenstein House. The tower forms part of a reinforced concrete fortress, which we can see looking left from the entrance to our building. It rises in a small park behind a block of social housing that bridges the road and bears the name Kurt-Steyrer-Hof. I…

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Prodigal is out now!

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Prodigal

My new novel Prodigal is published on 23 August. If you’d like to read the first chapter, learn a little more about the book or listen to me talking about it, try clicking here.

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Charles Lambert on his novel 'Prodigal'

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Promotion

Two years ago I was at the Mantova Literary Festival to promote the Italian translation of The View from the Tower (Occasioni di Morte, published by Voland). I was talking with Marcello Fois, the Sardinian novelist and journalist Carlo Annese, and I was struck, as ever, by the gap between writing a book and having to talk about it or, even worse, talk about issues that relate in some distant way…

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Out in October 2017.

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The New York Times Book Review raves about Barbara Gowdy’s LITTLE SISTER!

“[A] supernatural domestic thriller and a crackling tour de force in which thunderstorms propel one woman’s mind into another’s body, forcing the traveler to reconsider her own stalled life and reviving long-buried memories of her sister’s death… . Thanks to Gowdy’s electric style and vision, the result is unforgettable.”

Check out the full review here!