Who killed summertime? How do we trace the complex roots of responsibility?
When I used to be rising up, one of my mother and father’ favorite albums was a reside recording of
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Books
‘I think I’ve written more Sherlock Holmes than even Conan Doyle’: the ongoing fight to reimagine Holmes
The first ever point out of Sherlock Holmes got here in A Study in Scarlet, revealed in Beeton’s Christmas Annual
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‘I’ve been called Satan’: Dr Rachel Clarke on facing abuse in the Covid crisis
Please think about it, for a second, for those who can bear to. Being wheeled from your private home by
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Francis Spufford: ‘I’m still angry about what has been done to this country’
Francis Spufford kills off all of the protagonists of his new novel within the first chapter. “I want the reader
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‘No one seemed to know what happened to my aunt’: Sebastian Barry on The Secret Scripture
My first intimation of Roseanne McNulty got here after I was driving with my mom via Strandhill in Sligo. We
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Frostquake by Juliet Nicolson review – Britain’s frozen winter of 1962
On Boxing Day 1962 it started to snow and didn’t cease for the following 10 weeks. In impact, Britain had
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Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic review – inside the mind of a survivor
In 2018, Olivia Sudjic spent two months alone in Brussels. Her debut novel, Sympathy, had been revealed to essential acclaim
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The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms review – the riddle of consciousness solved?
In a crowded discipline, consciousness has a robust declare to being the strangest factor in the universe. The feeling of
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Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson review – medieval black comedy
If you see Brother Diggory coming, head in the wrong way. For he brings the nice Lord’s phrase and likewise
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Jane Smiley: ‘I couldn’t finish Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. I tossed it’
The e book I am presently studyingSafe from the Sea by Peter Geye is about close to Duluth, Minnesota, however
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