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AFTER ANITA BROOKNER'S brief experiment with an elderly man as the main character in last year's novel, The Next Big Thing, her trademark women are back at the centre here - and back with a vengeance.

The mystery of Agatha Christie's extraordinary appeal is the subject for investigation in this engaging study by Robert Barnard, and by the end of the book you should be a lot clearer about the ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

Film directors usually make the least promising subjects for biography. They tend to stay behind the camera and get on with making films, emerging only to make the odd promotional statement. Only ...

Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize. In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.

Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.

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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize. In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.

Shehan Karunatilaka’s freewheeling debut, Chinaman, won a clutch of awards in 2010. In it, a cynical, drink-soaked narrator tries to track down a possibly dead cricketer in a Sri Lanka riven by civil ...

Jean Giono’s hallucinatory Fragments of a Paradise appears here for the first time in English translation. Giono dictated the novel to his secretary, Mlle Alice, over a four-month period in 1944 ...

Monasteries and convents have in modern times become marginal, countercultural institutions, and the people who live in them are rarities as well as oddities. At university, some contemporaries of ...