From Tom Crewe to Caro Giles: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt and a study of conducting by Alice Farnham.
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Also featuring A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt and a study of conducting by Alice Farnham.
ByThe Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural addiction…
ByThroughout the book’s 400 pages runs a single theme: the need for closure after a lifetime of repressed trauma.
ByA century after the writer's death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
ByJonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas…
ByA new poem by Sarah Fletcher.
ByJustin Gregg’s witty exploration of animal intelligence is a useful guide – but there is more to human life than…
ByRhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
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