When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily …
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Second World War
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It was quite a surprise, on finishing Hotel du Lac, to learn that it was probably set around the time it was …
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Undoubtably, the best book I have read this year, this Transit review has been easy to write. The book is lyrical and …
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Britain was pretty skint in 1945, but our grandparents managed – even after six years of war and the ‘Hungry Thirties’ – …
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Famous opening lines of novels often get bandied about in lists, but it wasn’t until I read From Russia With Love for …
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I will start this The Assault review by saying that I am not quite sure by what happy chance Harry Mulisch’s book …
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I have been reading the rather excellent ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe. It is full of …
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