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WEBLiterary 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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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.
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
WEBBy Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson 1212pp £19.95. ‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire ...
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WEBFresh discoveries for even the most avid reader. Subscribe to Literary Review today and enjoy: Eleven illustrated issues per year, delivered to your letterbox Bumper double issue for December and January Unlimited access to the website online archive, extending back to 1979 Unlimited access to the Literary Review app (available on Apple devices and Kindle Fire) To contact the...
Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch - review by Jane Gardam
WEBBy Iris Murdoch. A few friends meet on a midsummer night, the eve of a wedding they have long been working for. It will unite two people they all love and two English country houses that have stood near each other but at sword-point for centuries. After her and toasts to the morrow they wander out in pairs into the starlit garden of one of the ...
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WEBSubscribe Today! Home » Current Issue ». top. Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on British art * John Adamson on the Duke of Buckingham * Andrew Preston on Ronald Reagan * Michael Prodger on the Paris Commune * Daisy Dunn on drawing * …
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WEBLove Her Or Hate Her. The Essays of Virginia Woolf – Volume 5: 1929 to 1932. By Stuart N Clarke (ed) LR. April 2005 Issue. Peter Washington.
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WEB18 hours ago — In the Current Issue: Corruption of one sort or another has always appeared to fascinate Caroline Blackwood but this is the first of her five novels to really get to grips with it. In Corrigan, she tries to analyse not just the meaning but the effects of corruption and comes to some surprising conclusions. ‘I’m so interested in Corrigan’, one character in the novel says; ‘I’m so ...
The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor - review by …
WEB5 days ago — By Bendor Grosvenor. Elliott & Thompson 390pp £40. You would think that there were dozens of histories of British art out there, along the lines of an art history course I came across titled ‘Caveman to Picasso’. Oddly, there are not, and those that exist cannot always be trusted. This most enjoyable book is an exception.
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WEBHistory of Ideas. History of Science. History of a single year. Holland. Holocaust. Holy Roman Empire. Hong Kong. Horses & Equestrianism.