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Review: Trauma by Patrick McGrath

guardian.co.uk     2 hrs ago   1 related          

Other people's terror Hilary Mantel enters the mind of a psychiatrist in Patrick McGrath's latest neurogothic tale Saturday July 5, 2008 The Guardian New York at the close of the 1970s is a broken and criminal city awash with...

Nesbitt To Materialise as New Dr Who?

4ni.co.uk     10 hrs ago   9 related          

As one of the most dramatic storylines yet to have been seen on the latest series of award-winning science fiction TV drama, Dr Who hurtles to its conclusion this weekend - there's only one thing fans can be sure of - current...

Book Review: House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James

scotsman.com     3 hrs ago   2 related          

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family by Paul Fisher Little, Brown, 704pp, £16.99 Review by LESLEY McDOWELL SO MANY QUESTIONS, SO FEW answers: the life of Henry James, a writer who specialised in ambiguity...

Granada: The city that inspired a bestseller

telegraph.co.uk     10 hrs ago          

The Alhambra may be Spain’s most visited monument, but it’s the quieter, less showy side of Granada that fascinates novelist Victoria Hislop. I have now been to Granada in every season and all weather conditions, on days when...

Re-reading the best of the Booker

telegraph.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Have the novels on the Best of the Booker shortlist retained their freshness? The celebrations continue on Thursday, with the announcement of the Best of the Booker: the novel that in the opinion of the public has been the...

Forgotten treasure from Brazil

telegraph.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Kasia Boddy reviews The Diary of 'Helena Morley' by Elizabeth Bishop In 1952 the American poet Elizabeth Bishop moved to Brazil to live with her lover, Lota de Macedo Soares. Bishop's first translation - begun as an exercise to...

Sugar-coating the Scottsboro Boys' trials

telegraph.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Lionel Shriver reviews Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman Although the notorious case of the "Scottsboro Boys" has been covered in more than one non-fiction chronicle - the author acknowledges her debt to two - the white American...

Married life in literary London

telegraph.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Kate Colquhoun reviews D H Lawrence and Frieda; Portrait of Love and Loyalty by Michael Squires and Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe That a great deal of private theatre can be found behind its very public state may be the...

Hadrian and the wall of silence

telegraph.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

What was the Emperor Hadrian actually like? A new British Museum exhibition gives glimpses. By Martin Gayford Feeling that his life was ebbing away, the Emperor Hadrian composed a letter to his successor around AD137. Hadrian:...

The Wasp Factory: primitivism

guardian.co.uk     2 hrs ago          

John Mullan on Iain Banks's debunking of the 'noble savage' in The Wasp Factory Saturday July 5, 2008 The Guardian Of course Iain Banks wanted to give us some horror. The infamous maggots scene in The Wasp Factory - explaining...

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