Write To The Point by Sam Leith
The Observer, October 2017 Language has rules, but there’s no umpire: this is the starting point for Sam Leith’s guide to correct or, more precisely, standard English usage. He goes on to explore how […]
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Jennifer Egan on new historical novel Manhattan Beach
The National, October 2017 Jennifer Egan is standing in the New York home where she has watched her family grow up. A Victorian house in a once-neglected Brooklyn neighbourhood, it is now in a desirable […]
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Observer, September 2017 In the perfectly paced, middle-aged, middle-class drama that completes Jeffrey Eugenides’s first collection of short stories, a famous physics professor “watches his life implode” after an ill-advised one-night stand with a […]
Munich by Robert Harris
The Observer, September 2017 It’s one of the defining – and in hindsight humiliating – images of the 20th century: Neville Chamberlain stepping off the plane from Munich in September 1938 clutching a paper signed […]
Kamila Shamsie on Booker-longlisted Home Fire
The National, September 2017 As openings to novels go, it doesn’t get more contemporary or urgent than the striking first pages of Kamila Shamsie’s new, Booker longlisted novel Home Fire. Isma is on her way […]