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WEBLiterary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London. October 2024, Issue 534 Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on ...
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WEBRichard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on British art * John Adamson on the Duke of Buckingham * Andrew Preston on Ronald Reagan * Michael Prodger on the Paris Commune * Daisy Dunn on drawing * Stephen Smith on Banksy * Stuart Jeffries on freedom * Jonathan Sumption on Richard II * Donald Rayfield on the Russian Orthodox ...
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WEBIn the Current Issue: Corruption of one sort or another has always appeared to fascinate Caroline Blackwood but this is the first of her five novels to really get to grips with it. In Corrigan, she tries to analyse not just the meaning but the effects of corruption and comes to some surprising conclusions. ‘I’m so interested in Corrigan’, one character in …
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - review by Emma Garman
WEBFor her glorious new novel, Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson has taken inspiration from the real-life exploits of Kate Meyrick, a nightclub entrepreneur notorious in 1920s London. But this is very much an ensemble piece, with an omniscient narrator gliding across multiple viewpoints. Freda Murgatroyd, a fourteen-year-old dancer.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - review by Hilary Mantel
WEBBy Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury 480pp £15.99. In Margaret Atwood’s brilliant new novel of nineteenth-century Canada there is a character called Jeremiah, a pedlar, whose diverse and enticing wares are welcomed in almost any house. Some of his linens and ribbons are new, and some are what is now known as ‘previously owned’, but all are ...
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The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan - review by Adrian Turpin
WEBBy Andrew O'Hagan. Faber & Faber 293pp £17.99. In its title alone, Andrew O’Hagan’s fifth novel packs in a lot. The Illuminations refers to the famous Blackpool lights, to tracer fire over Helmand and to the moments of lucidity experienced amid senile dementia. In its brutal and compelling portrayal of war in Afghanistan, the book attempts ...
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WEBAbout. Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction.Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields. It aims to reach a wide audience of readers who enjoy intelligent and accessible writing.
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WEBThe Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation. By Andrew Motion & Stephen Regan (EDD) December 2023 Issue. Rowan Williams.