Books
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: Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes
Love and the Gulag: A remarkable tale of devotion comes to light after more than 50 years
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 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: Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
An old woman’s memories evoke an entire continent of art in an epic of Australia
Book reviews
Book review: Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
The author of The Corrections is in a petulant mood throughout this sad collection of essays
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: 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.
Book review: Ignorance by Michele Roberts
MICHELE Roberts’s feminist credentials go back a long way and cover many different subjects, from superb historical fiction on the Brontës and Wordsworth’s French mistress, to more contemporary, experimental novels about life in 1970s London.
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