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    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      The End of Nightwork — Aidan Cottrell-Boyce’s ambitious debut

      An artful novel teeming with ideas about politics, time and trauma

    • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
      ReviewBooks
      How to Love Animals by Henry Mance — creatures’ comfort

      This exploration of the meat industry and more gives plenty to chew over for those considering a vegan lifestyle

    • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
      ReviewFiction
      Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn — a swirl of ideas

      Big concepts, from neuroscience to rewilding, entice but fail to compel in the Patrick Melrose author’s 10th novel

    • Sunday, 31 May, 2020
      News in-depthArts
      Nature podcast The Stubborn Light of Things is a soothing tonic in strange times

      Novelist Melissa Harrison guides us on ambles through Suffolk in this elegantly produced series

    • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Falcon Thief — an egg smuggler and the world of wildlife crime

      A tale of criminal derring-do casts a thief of raptor eggs in an overly heroic light

    • Friday, 5 July, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong’s memoir-like tale is densely lyrical

      The poet’s debut novel tells the story of a gay immigrant boy in rich sensory language

    • Friday, 22 February, 2019
      ReviewHistory books
      Time Song by Julia Blackburn — in search of Doggerland

      The land that once linked Britain to Europe is fertile ground for delving into past lives and current concerns

    • Friday, 8 February, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Tamarisk Row and Border Districts by Gerald Murnane — Australia’s dark horse

      An enigmatic author, possibly the best you’ve never heard of, comes up with his first and possibly last novels

    • Friday, 24 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison — farm hands

      A girl’s imagination adds colour to rural life in 1930s England in this evocative tale

    • Friday, 20 July, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran — identity crisis

      This take on working-class teenage life is insightful, if confused

    • Friday, 1 June, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      White Houses by Amy Bloom — enduring love

      A brilliantly imagined account of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok’s secret affair

    • Friday, 6 April, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Census by Jesse Ball — incredible journey

      A dying man and his Down syndrome son embark on a dreamlike road-trip in a novel that is both strange and profound

    • Friday, 9 March, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey — what 1491 was really like

      A murder mystery that brilliantly evokes the texture of life in medieval England

    • Friday, 9 February, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Educated by Tara Westover — more than just survival

      A journey from Idaho isolation is powerfully described in this memoir of learning

    • Friday, 15 December, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman — tales of the imagination

      An essay collection that distils a lifetime’s worth of thinking about books and writing

    • Thursday, 14 December, 2017
      Work & Careers
      The consequences of looking at pornography at work

      Explicit content is widely accessed in the office, with damaging effect

    • Friday, 24 November, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello — call of the wild

      A menagerie of extraordinary animals reveal themselves in an illuminating collection of essays

    • Friday, 21 July, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Madame Zero by Sarah Hall — base instinct

      Steeped in sex and death, these short stories eschew social convention for something more innate

    • Friday, 14 July, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Watling Street by John Higgs — before Brexit

      A trip along an ancient road brings together different ideas of Britishness, from ‘The Canterbury Tales’ to 1990s rave culture

    • Friday, 26 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout — the lives of others

      The follow-up to ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ is an extraordinary exercise in imaginative empathy

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Attrib. and Other Stories, by Eley Williams — true to form

      The best experimental writing often comes in small packages, as this collection shows

    • Friday, 3 March, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume — life studies

      An acclaimed young novelist offers a lyrical examination of the creative process

    • Friday, 17 February, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Ashland & Vine by John Burnside — the house in the woods

      A recluse shares her story in a novel that blends folklore, fairytale and US history

    • Friday, 27 January, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Fathers & Sons by Howard Cunnell — ‘lucid and unforgettable’

      Masculinity is explored over two generations in a poignant, light-suffused memoir

    • Friday, 25 November, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Winter by Melissa Harrison review — a delightful reminder to embrace our outdoors
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