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...Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Hamish Hamilton/Knopf) Marías’s final novel, posthumously published in September, sees a retired British SIS member return for one last...
...The Trick to Time, by Kit de Waal, Viking, RRP£12.99 A woman reflects on a 1970s love affair in the follow-up to My Name is Leon....
...He refused to make a dress for Rita Hayworth — reminding me of a later artist who made splendidly simple clothes, Jean Muir, who refused to design for Margaret Thatcher....
...In a tandem autobiographical strand, de Waal also recounts his own love affair with the material....
...The 17th-century essayist François de La Rochefoucauld wrote that death was like the sun, neither to be looked at steadily. It is to our credit, surely, if that maxim no longer holds....
...A joy to behold, the pages thrill with his signature joie de vivre....
...… Diary of the Fall, by Michel Laub, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 Memory, guilt and fatherhood are at the centre of this poignant novel by Laub (named among the “Best...
...Margaret MacMillan’s monumental The War That Ended Peace (Profile) must rank at the top of the pile....
...The World America Made, by Robert Kagan, Knopf, RRP$21, 160 pages A short book that attracted Obama’s attention....
...Even before Margaret Thatcher’s arrival, Britain was transforming itself from a nation of collectivists to one of individualists....
...A Partisan’s Daughter By Louis de Bernières Knopf Canada/Harvill Secker £16.99, 224 pages Set in 1970s London, this is an unlikely love story – between a middle-aged man and a young Yugoslavian – from the...
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