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...The End of the World Running Club, by Adrian J Walker, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 After an asteroid strike destroys most of Britain, Ed finds himself separated from his wife and children....
...… 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...
...of ‘War and Gold’ (Bloomsbury) I have enjoyed many books this year but one that stood out, partly because of its unusual nature, was Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Little, Brown) by Richard J...
...Selections by Ángel Gurría-Quintana … POETRY Red Doc> , by Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G”...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana …………………………………………………………….....
...It was dear to postwar writers such as Henry Williamson (author of Tarka the Otter) and H.J....
...Angel Gurría-Quintana is the FT’s fiction reviewer ………………………………………………………....
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
...Pais, Victor Garcia de la Concha, director of the RAE, recalls explaining to García Márquez what the suggested reforms (dropping accents, ditching the silent h, eradicating the differentiated use of g and j,...
...Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Robert Frost, Garry Kasparov, Dante, Blaise Pascal, Knut Hamsun, Socrates, Michel de Montaigne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Beethoven, Rembrandt, Seneca, J.P...
...EMPIRES OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H....
...Argentine novelist Rodrigo Fresan’s Kensington Gardens (Faber £12.99), an exhilarating literary romp based on the life of J.M....
...Bloomsbury, which famously struck gold by publishing J.K. Rowling, already has Brazilian writers on its list....
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