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...The Death of Comrade President Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£14.99 The sequel to Mabanckou’s fictionalised account of his childhood in Congo-Brazzaville, Tomorrow...
...No Map Could Show Them, by Helen Mort, Chatto, RRP£10/Random House, RRP$22.95 The superb young Sheffield poet Helen Mort is also in the resurrection game, although her sights in No Map Could Show Them are...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Bate’s book started out as a “literary life”, bolstered by huge amounts...
...… Fiction in Translation by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Maclehose Press, RRP£12.99 Winner of France’s Goncourt prize, Ferrari...
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...The Spare Room By Helen Garner Canongate £12.99, 195 pages Understated and unsentimental, Garner’s first novel in 16 years fleshes out the intricate bonds of affection and annoyance that emerge as Helen...
...I mention a scene in The Blackwater Lightship: Helen, whose brother is dying of Aids, recalls a time when her father was ill with cancer, and nuns came calling to announce that, during mass, they would knock...
...So she tells the story herself - of her birth and childhood, the relationship with her unbearable cousin Helen of Troy, her marriage to Odysseus (who secretly lusted after Helen) and of her long wait, amid...
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