Rachel Malik

@rachelmalik

Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.

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Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· 29d

Haven’t yet decided on what I’ll read for women in translation month in August, but here are some recommendations Fleur Jaggy, Anna Seghers, Tove Ditlevsen, Colette, Shahrnush Parsipur, OlgaTokarczuk, Lalla Romano Titles, translators and original languages in alt text. #WITMonth

Photo of the covers of seven books on a rug. They are: Fleur Jaggy, I am the Brother of XX, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff, Anna Seghers, The Dead Girls’ School Trip: Selected Stories, translated from the German by Margot Bettauer, Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood, translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally, Colette, Break Of Day, translated from the French by Enid McCleod, Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men, translated from the Persian by Faridoun Farrokh, Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones, Lalla Romano, A Silence Shared, translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jul 12

And here’s my current reading!

Copy of Fleur Jaggy, I am the Brother of XX translated by Gina Alhadeff published by & Other Stories

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jul 12

Good morning from Liverpool where I have been visiting my stepdaughter and her 8 week old baby. With my son who is now an uncle. As a (step) grandma, I can report that there was kissing and nuzzling.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jul 10

Ziggy is enjoying the fan.

Blue black dog lying stretched out on a battered red sofa

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jul 10

For Marcel Proust botd, the bed where he spent a lot of time writing …

Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Reconstruction of Proust’s bedroom.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jul 3

Rosé and a brilliant short story, The Forester’s Daughter by #ClaireKegan. Amongst other things, it’s an extraordinary use of a title.

Copy of ‘The Forester’s Daughter’ by Claire Keegan, on a wooden table with an iced glass of rosé.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jul 1

Katherine Mansfield woz here. 17 East Heath Road, Hampstead, London, NW3

White painted 3 storey house seen from behind a stone wall. Blue plaque visible.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 28

Rewatching the chicken fingers-mafia episode of Community 💙💙

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 28

Ziggy in his happy place

Black dog, shoulder deep in a pond with a yellow ball in his mouth. Content.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 28

Back on Hampstead Heath. 6.40 am. Breeze!

Hampstead Heath. Bands of dark green trees, lavender and grass

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 25

Won’t accept any poems/apologies for eating my melon which is mine

Halfed Gallia melon and quarter on a shelf, cool in the fridge.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 25

Back under the dining table.

Black dog lying on a wooden floor, under a table

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 23

London, N19. The dog is already lying under the dining table and I may well join him.

BBC weather forecast for the next few days in London N19

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 18

I nearly missed Ziggy Day, now just over six years ago when this beautiful, brilliant thief arrived at our house.

Black Labrador ish dog standing on a wooden dining table

Black Labrador ish puppy looking as if butter wouldn’t melt

Super elegant black dog in a photo alternatively titled ‘call my agent’

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 17

There’s a great scene in the 1940 Pride and Prejudice which is wholly historically inaccurate but wonderfully camp when Lawrence Olivier’s Mr Darcy says of Greer Garson’s Elizabeth Bennet ‘I think she handles a bow and arrow superbly’

Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier flirting with archery in the 1940 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 16

Aforementioned parmigiana. Not pictured: little pieces of ricotta under the surface.

A rectangular dish, full of aubergine parmigiana.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 14

Baby duck stuff.

Coot parents and cute ducklings swimming about

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 12

Bad news mate. You are completely wrong

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 11

Got a bit fancy for a Thursday and paid the price with recalcitrant halloumi.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 9

Time to admit that the orchid is dead.

A very sorry orchid plant on a dining table. All the leaves have fallen.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· Jun 7

Morning walk ( wish this was my garden)

High wall in front of which many tall pink and purple flowers.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 31

When I said it was time for the cafe

Black labradorish dog sitting in the grass and sticking our his very pink tongue

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 30

Happy Birthday to one of my heroines #AgnesVarda. I was lucky enough to stay near Rue Daguerre ( round the corner from this mural) a few years ago.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 29

Getting ready for work

A red and silver moka pot on a very dirty gas stove

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 28

Watched a film about priests who may have been behaving badly at the weekend and could not alas stop thinking of Father Ted and his household.

Stlll from Hitchcock’s I confess as Montgomery Clift gets some some bad news through the confession box

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 27

Starting a salad

Terracotta bowl with tomatoes, green beans and olives

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 24

Just started #FrancisSpufford #Nonesuch and there are magic spells and talking statues in the London Blitz. #SundayMorningReading #Booksky

Kindle cover of Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 23

At the framer’s on other business but sorely tempted. #TheBirds

Italian language poster of Alfred Hitchcocks’s The Birds or Gli Uccelli

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 23

On our way back from the Heath. One of us swam.

Black dog with amber eyes looking v intensely at the camera, or rather the treat just beside it.

Rachel Malik@rachelmalik· May 19

George Lamming writing about Notting Hill in the late 1950s. Quoted in the disturbingly relevant #ClairWillsLoversAndStrangersAnImmigrantHistoryofPost-WarBritain