Books
Book review: The Old Ways: A Journey
THIS volume completes a rough trilogy – Mountains Of The Mind, The Wild Places and now The Old Ways – and confirms Robert Macfarlane’s reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature; although a new term is increasingly necessary.
Interview: Paul French, author of Midnight in China
Pamela Werner was 19 when her heart and her body were left under a ‘haunted watchtower’ in Peking in 1937. Paul French tells David Robinson how he can finally name the killer
Book review: Sidney Chambers And The Shadow Of Death
‘AND is there honey still for tea?” When the hero is a learned young country vicar, and one of two love interests is named Hildegard, after the 12th century Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen, you know you’re in pretty refined company for a detective series. Opera-loving Inspector Morse would appear to have a rival.
Book review: Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes
Love and the Gulag: A remarkable tale of devotion comes to light after more than 50 years
Bookworm: Julia Donaldson is looking forward to a busy autumn
The football season may be over, but next year gleams with promise for at least one Scottish team. Step forward the Blue Brazil, aka Cowdenbeath, champions of the Second Division and bound for glory in the First next year.
Book reviews
Book review: Skios by Michale Frayn
ONE of the most endearing things about Michael Frayn is his addiction to farce. He may be the playwright of nuclear physics (Copenhagen), a familial memoirist of delicacy (My Father’s Fortune) and a translator of Chekhov and Tolstoy, but he likes nothing better than love triangles, misunderstandings and dropped trousers.
Book reviews: The Cookbook Library | A People’s History of London | Afghanistan
Michael Kerrigan looks at the week’s new literary releases
Book reviews: Sic | The Art of Fielding | The Address Book | My Beautiful Game
William Leith looks at this week’s paperback releases
Book review: Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, by Kate Summerscale
A Victorian woman’s place is in the divorce courts when a scandalous diary comes to light
Book review: RU by Kim Thuy
KIM Thuy is Vietnamese and writes in French. Her family belonged to the Saigon upper-bourgeoisie who had done well when Indo-China was part of the French empire.
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