The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
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The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
February 15, 2025There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
February 8, 2025The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
February 6, 2025I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor
February 4, 2025David and Eleanor’s story is an unremarkable one. But their ordinary disappointments and frustrations are precisely...
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
February 4, 2025The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
February 3, 2025...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
February 3, 2025To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
February 2, 2025Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is...
Believers and Infidels
January 30, 2025For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...




