Hints and tips:
...The same cannot be said, unfortunately, for Prophet (Vintage £18.99) by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché. It seems like a cracking techno-thriller....
...Authors and journalists, including Valeria Luiselli, Chigozie Obioma, Helen Mort, Hannes Grassegger and Booker-winner Douglas Stuart have contributed exclusive content for Alexander....
...But it was the publication of another 2014 title, Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, that really announced the genre’s arrival....
...In the past, two great ladies of British gardening crossbred the finest forms in their collections, Helen Ballard near Malvern and Elizabeth Strangman in Kent....
...Clive Ballard of King’s College, London, says: “There are 1,760 mid-stage trials for cancer and 17 for Alzheimer’s. People get demoralised about failure but there hasn’t been enough volume....
...The opening is straight Ian Fleming-meets-JG Ballard....
...Back in Troy, Helen (Ania Sowinski), the cause of all this grubby hostility, totters about, flashing too much thigh....
...Helen Macdonald, a medical student, ran the London marathon last year. One year on, she now feels ready to contemplate serious sport seriously again....
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