Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed) ...

Sharpe père died in 1944, shortly before he could be apprised of the realities of Belsen. Even with the benefit of Brendon’s ...

Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen - What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost by Orlando Reade ...

On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation by Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard ...

Among medieval heroes, El Cid has proved the most durable. There is no doubt that he, unlike King Arthur, existed; it is ...

We Wanna Live Like Common People - Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite by Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman ...

Nights to Remember - The Party by Tessa Hadley ...

Too Much of a Good Thing - Held by Anne Michaels ...

Thom Gunn started out as a member of the Movement, that 1950s collection of like-minded British poets, but he looks now like a consistent outsider. When he left England and went to America, he ...

Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley. In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

Mohamed bin Laden was born in 1908 (or thereabouts) in the town of Doan in what is now Yemen. His father died when he was still a young boy and, as a teenager, he left home to find work, first in ...