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...H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, published by Jonathan Cape, was the bookies’ favourite to take the £20,000 prize....
...The Iceberg: A Memoir , by Marion Coutts, Atlantic Books, RRP£14.99 Coutts’ husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, died in 2011 from a brain tumour....
...The Iceberg by Marion Coutts, a lecturer in Art at Goldsmiths College in London, does not mediate the experience of grief but rather confronts it full on....
...Then comes Alison Light, who talks wittily about her family history, Common People, followed by Caroline Moorehead on Village of Secrets, Marion Coutts on The Iceberg and Helen Macdonald on H is for Hawk...
...Do No Harm by Henry Marsh, a gripping portrait of a brain surgeon’s life and work; Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, the American doctor-writer whose first Reith lecture was aired by the BBC this week; and Marion...
...Literary Non-Fiction by Carl Wilkinson The Iceberg: A Memoir, by Marion Coutts, Atlantic Books, RRP£14.99 Coutts’ husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, died in 2011 from a brain tumour....
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