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Man under siege
Living under Albania’s repressive regime spurred the creative spirit of Booker Prize winner Ismail Kadare
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The mother of her dreams
Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing plays the invented against the remembered, writing about her parents as they might have been and as she saw them
The Bolter
This definitive account of the life of the fantastically libidinous Idina Sackville dispenses of any residual glitter that may still cling to the 1920s Out-of-Africa romanticism
Bamboo Goalposts
While Chinese fans excel as couch potatoes at betting on foreign football, they rarely don the boots themselves, writes Simon Kuper
Worshipping Walt
Walt Whitman’s personality and his free and persuasive verse inspired almost apostolic devotion from a variety of fervent disciples
The Pirate’s Dilemma
Music journalist and former pirate radio DJ Matt Mason analyzes the current state of capitalism through the eyes of a rebellious free marketer
The Bridge
This probing sketch of Istanbul’s history and its people tests the cliché of Turkey as a link between east and west against the reality
Narrow Dog to Indian River
The Darlingtons reprise their French canal adventure in more ambitious fashion by sailing their narrow boat from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico
Fiction
The Secret Scripture
A woman wrongly committed to an asylum for 50 years reveals her misfortunes in a hidden journal in this powerful and memorable novel
Deaf Sentence
This funny novel, which is as much about mortality as deafness, dwells on how easily we can fail to appreciate what is important until it is too late
The Behaviour of Moths
In this striking debut novel, an amateur lepidopterist struggles to resolve her past as an estranged sister resurfaces after an absence of 40 years
Disquiet
Full of trauma and grief, this is a story of an Australian woman who leaves an abusive husband and moves in with her relatives in the French countryside
Havana Gold
A teacher is found strangled in her apartment. Evidence shows gang rape and marijuana use. Inspector Mario Conde takes the case
Travels with Herodotus
A Polish reporter’s memoir gives a human gloss to the more profound passages in the Greek historian’s 25-century-old journalism
Between Each Breath
A once promising composer’s marriage to his heiress wife is fractured with the emergence of a musical prodigy who turns out to be his son from an earlier adultery
Dear Book Doctor
Seeking Mr Write
I’ve been single for three years and I go on occasional dates. My friends keep urging me to try internet dating but I’m sure there’s a better way to meet men
SMALL TALK
Harlan Coben
What is the strangest thing I’ve done for research? Once I had to call a sex phone line; I begged my wife to stay in the room with me because I was scared
Book cover
The New York Trilogy
In its slightly naive, first-year, surrealist way, the cover is a terrific piece of design, very 1980s and perfect for the literary urban angst of the book
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