The Observer, November 2020 Juve!Herbie Sykes Yellow Jersey, £20, pp416 Herbie Sykes has written several fine books on cycling and Italian culture. This keen Italophile now turns his attention to the country’s biggest football team, […]
The Observer, October 2020. Margaret MacMillan’s exemplary study of war, Sigrid Nunez’s meditation on death and Joseph O’Connor’s resurrection of Bram Stoker War: How Conflict Shaped Us Margaret MacMillanProfile, £20, pp320 In historian Margaret MacMillan’s […]
The author says his time as a travel journalist in Dubai informed him how he could move his characters around and what that meant. The National, October 2020 Sometimes, inspiration can strike, and stick, in […]
‘Colonialism obviously transformed everything, and in that process you can find good aspects,’ says Gurnah. The National, September 2020 When Abdulrazak Gurnah was growing up in 1950s Zanzibar, he was told stories of the First […]
Ocean Vuong explores family trauma, ex-goalkeeper Neville Southall reveals all and Robert Saviano goes back to the mob. The Observer, September 2020 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Ocean VuongVintage, £8.99, pp256 (paperback) The central idea […]