Saturday, 30 December 2017

My Book of The Year: Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

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The Financial Times , where I turn to more often than to the TLS or the LRB for Arts & Books news and reviews - the FT is more radica...
Sunday, 17 December 2017

Review: Ann Jefferson, Genius in France. An Idea and Its Uses

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This is a very readable scholarly study, which is more than can be said for some of the works scholared and quoted here. It was only ...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Review: Lawrence Osborne Beautiful Animals

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It’s true that most novels nowadays are hostage to their covers, and in this case the novel does little to undo the laziness of a cov...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Review: Tim Parks In Extremis

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The death of a parent does funny things to children, even when those children are of mature years. Powerful mixtures of grief, guilt, l...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Available Now: Trevor Pateman Prose Improvements

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Click on Image to Magnify Published 1 November 2017. Hardback. 128 pp. Limited first edition of five hundred signed and numbered ...
Sunday, 29 October 2017

Review: Tim Parks, The Novel: a Survival Skill

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In 1970, aged 16, Tim Parks wrote a school essay for which he expected an A grade. Instead he got a D with the explanatory comment “B...
Friday, 8 September 2017

Review: Michael Rosen So They Call You Pisher!

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Writing autobiography and memoir is a perilous business.  We forget and what we do remember has often been re-arranged in our minds ...
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