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Part of William Boyds latest novel is set on the battlefields of the Great War, and it also reflects the psychological upheavals the conflict generated

Interview: William Boyd, author of Waiting for Sunrise

William Boyd tells David Robinson what drew him to write his new thriller about an actor-turned-spy in 1913 Vienna

William McIlvanney, author of Laidlaw. Picture: Stephen Mansfield

Stephen McGinty: Brought to book by crime

LET’S be honest – romance in print is all very well, but you can’t beat a really good crime thriller when there are so many great authors out there, writes Stephen McGinty

Book reviews: The Woman in Black | An Exclusive Love | Before I Go To Sleep

William Leith gives his verdict on the latest paperback releases

Poetry: ‘Washing Day’ by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

LAUTUS Press’s Washing Lines is an anthology devoted to laundry – a little book redolent of the smell of hot suds and starch.

Mexican police guard a murder scene in Ciudad Juarez. Picture: Getty

Book review: El Narco

JUST what the hell is going on in Mexico? Anyone with half an eye on international news coverage over the last few months will surely have noticed some startling figures coming out of the country previously best known for tourism and tequila.

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Book review: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

THE title of this novel, its cover design and the comment on the back cover might lead readers to pass the story by as nothing but a delightful piece of whimsy.

Books by Kitty Fisher were the antecedents of those by Katie Price. Pictures: Getty

Book review: The Origins of Sex: The History of the First Sexual Revolution

IMAGINE – this might be a little tricky – that you are a young woman living in Scotland in the 16th century. What would you know about sex? Well, you would know that your sexual life was policed and scrutinised: by family, by neighbours, by the law, by the church.

Chapter and verse on a poet who matters

Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems

Book review: This Beautiful Life

EVERYONE’S done it. Everyone has hit “Send” on an email only to be assailed with second thoughts intense enough to inspire the forceful and repeated application of head to desk, to the tune of, “No, no, no, no!”

Book review: The Snow Child

BY chapter five, 50 pages into a debut novel to be relished for all the right reasons, Eowyn Ivey’s fictional world of Alaskan bleakness and wintry bite had me feeling baleful, ready to quit.

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