Women & other misfits
That’s what we used to sing to Joyce on the days we walked past her car feeling brave. We’d dare each other to do it, needling our skinny ribs, kicking socked shins,...
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OUT NOW GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE: ON BEING STALKED by James Lasdun (Jonathan Cape, £14.99) Most authors nowadays have their own websites, and the novelist and critic...
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OUT NOW ILLUMINATION by Matthew Plampin (Harper Fiction, £14.99) The strength of this book lies in large part in the exactitude of the historical details and the...
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OUT NOW A MONTH BY THE SEA: ENCOUNTERS IN GAZA by Dervla Murphy (Eland Publishing, £16.99) Between November 2008 and December 2010, the intrepid travel writer Dervla...
The Blyton question
Controversy in the quiet Buckinghamshire town of Beaconsfi eld where a row has erupted over the legacy of Enid Blyton. A week-long celebration of the author’s life is being...
1 in 10 adults never read
New research unveiled today shows that a quarter of UK adults (over 12 million people ) have only picked up a book to read for pleasure once or less in the past six months...
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OUT NOW A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING by Dave Eggers (Hamish Hamilton, £18.99) As his name might suggest, businessman Alan Clay isn’t cut out for life in the Saudi Arabian...
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OUT NOW THE MISINTERPRETATION OF TARA JUPP by Eva Rice (Heron Books, £16.99) Tara Jupp, an eccentric vicar’s daughter from Cornwall, is a horse-mad teenager soaking up...
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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...
Daily tip from the lady archive
"It is not always she who appears most kindly in her interest who is the safe sharer of sacred (maybe sorrowful) secrets! Charming manners do not always connote sincerity of heart!”
The Lady. In Confidence. 4th April, 1918
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