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A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning...

A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mothe...

In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Iri...

Muriel Spark always regarded the Brontes with a novelist's eye. As Boyd Tonkin argues in his live...

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In this wide-reaching abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth dissects the conflict of values ...

A The Spectator and Observer Book of the YearThe NB column in the Times Literary Supplement, sign...

Ford Madox Ford spent his last years in the south of France, near Toulon. In Provence (1935), wri...

My notebooks are my conscience,' writes Frederic Raphael. 'They contain a writer's letters to him...