Peter Salmon

Peter Salmon is an Australian writer based in London. His novel The Coffee Story (2011) was selected by Toby Litt as his book of the year in the New Statesman. He has also written for television and for the Guardian. His new novel, Blue Roses, is out through Hunter Publishing in June.

Works By Peter Salmon

“53 Days” by Georges Perec: 'C'est l'Australie qui m'a foutu mal!'
What is particularly exhilarating – and ultimately frustrating – about “53 Days” is the sense that Perec himself hasn’t worked out where the book is going.
5 Sept. 2016
An Insatiable Thief in his Soul: Mayakovsky A Biography by Bengt Jangfeldt
‘Mayakovsky was not, of course, the first poet or the last to desire a revolution of the spirit, a re-evaluation of all values. For all that he believed that he believed in Communism, it is not hard to imagine Mayakovsky in the clothes of one of t...
1 Mar. 2016
Simone Weil’s Homer: The Iliad
'In the winter of 1940, during the first months of the Nazi occupation of France, the analogies between the world of the Iliad and the situation in Europe were, for Simone Weil, striking and chilling. There were broken truces, a city under siege,
8 Sept. 2015
A threat then, a threat now: Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK
The death of Stephen Ward stands as an iconic moment in British history, when the establishment, confronted by a new liberalism, had its hypocrisy exposed by a heady cocktail of female sexuality (a threat then, a threat now), race and politics.
25 Feb. 2014

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Peter Salmon

Works By Peter Salmon

“53 Days” by Georges Perec: 'C'est l'Australie qui m'a foutu mal!'

An Insatiable Thief in his Soul: Mayakovsky A Biography by Bengt Jangfeldt

Simone Weil’s Homer: The Iliad

A threat then, a threat now: Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK