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OUT NOW THE VOYAGE by Murray Bail (MacLehose Press, £12) Bail is an accomplished and inventive, prize-winning prose stylist with an impressive series of novels and short...
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OUT NOW THE TINY WIFE by Andrew Kaufman (The Friday Project, £6.99) A bank robber targets a group of ordinary people, but instead of stealing their money, he steals their...
Book Reviews: 11 January
OUT NOW CLAY by Melissa Harrison (Bloomsbury, £14.99) The characters that people this deeply felt novel are familiar: the homesick Polish immigrant; the unloved schoolboy;...
Book Reviews: 1 February
OUT NOW THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green (Penguin Books, £7.99) This moving novel for young adults tells in energetic, frequently humorous prose of the passionate,...
The wisdom of Jane Austen
As Pride and Prejudice celebrates its 200th anniversary, we recall our favourite lines from Jane Austen. “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to...
Book Reviews: 4 January
OUT NOW WINTER by Adam Gopnik (Quercus, £18.99) Winter begins with a snowstorm – on 12 November 1968, in Canada, when the author, Adam Gopnik, was a small boy. He stood at...
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OUT NOW GOSSIP by Beth Gutcheon (Atlantic Books, £12.99) Gossip, as the couturier narrator of this novel observes, is a poisonous thing. Poisonous, but also delicious,...
Bestselling behaviour
I had an idea for a book based on an obscure moment in history and, frankly, it looked as if it was going to stay that way. Most literary agents ignored the idea, a few...
The Pine Tree
Snow fell, deeply, crisply and evenly. Slowly the row of pine trees turned from green to white and their needles sparkled. A crimson-breasted robin puffed out his chest. It...
Daily tip from the lady archive
"What makes leisure and holidays delightful is just the fact that they come rarely. If you can have them whenever you like they lose their nature.”
The Lady. The Joy of Work. 14th May 1914
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