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WEB1 day ago · Literary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London. October 2024, Issue 534 Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on ...
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - review by Hilary Mantel
WEBBy Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury 480pp £15.99. In Margaret Atwood’s brilliant new novel of nineteenth-century Canada there is a character called Jeremiah, a pedlar, whose diverse and enticing wares are welcomed in almost any house. Some of his linens and ribbons are new, and some are what is now known as ‘previously owned’, but all are ...
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WEBAbout. Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction.Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields. It aims to reach a wide audience of readers who enjoy intelligent and accessible writing.
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - review by Sam Kitchener
WEBThe ‘act of oblivion’ in the title of Robert Harris’s latest novel is in its most straightforward sense the Indemnity and Oblivion Act introduced by Charles’s government. The act granted pardons – with some exceptions – to anyone who committed crimes during the Civil War, or the Interregnum that spanned the years between the ...
Grant by Ron Chernow - review by Richard Carwardine - Literary …
WEBRon Chernow’s Grant brings an eloquent voice to the ongoing work of rehabilitation. Only last year Ronald C White’s American Ulysses extolled Grant’s deep faith, sense of honour, commitment to racial justice and essential decency. But in Chernow’s hands Grant becomes an even more heroic figure. A prizewinning biographer with a gift for ...
Issue 503 - Literary Review
WEBPiers Brendon on George V * Sarah Dunant on Federico da Montefeltro * Frances Spalding on Ruskin Spear * Diane Purkiss on heavens & hells * Frances Cairncross on capitalism * Stephen Romer on T S Eliot's Letters, volume 9 * Elizabeth Lowry on Patricia Highsmith * Stephen Amidon on Stephen Crane * Daisy Dunn on the Greeks * Owen Matthews on the Black Sea * Julian Baggini on consolation * Martha ...
The Promise by Damon Galgut - review by David Isaacs - Literary …
WEBThe Uncle Charles Principle ‘entails writing about someone much as that someone would choose to be written about’. In his strange, skilful, spellbinding eighth novel, The Promise, the South African author Damon Galgut modifies this principle. Galgut’s third-person narrator swings, like Joyce’s, effortlessly from character to character ...