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...memoirs of back-to-back loss: The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), written immediately after the sudden death of her husband, and Blue Nights (2011), written six years after the death of her adopted daughter Quintana...
...The Unseen , by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, MacLehose Press, RRP£14.99 “An island is a cosmos in a nutshell”....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...… The Second Half, by Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, RRP£20 As a successful and controversial footballer, Keane did nothing by halves....
...… Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed, by Roy Strong, Frances Lincoln, RRP£30/$50 Sir Roy Strong has reinvented the garden he created in the 1970s with his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman....
...Published in 1952 (though more recently popularised by the 1984 film starring Robert Redford, which altered the novel’s unhappy ending), it tells the story of Roy Hobbs, an exceptionally talented but morally...
...Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey’’, which hinges on an unexpected encounter, is both quirky and quietly heartbreaking....
...Crucially, the book fails to persuade that DeSalvo was a serial killer, or to acquit Roy Smith....
...FICTION Angel Gurria-Quintana MOTHER’S MILK by Edward St Aubyn Picador ₤12.99, 288 pages There was an abundance of maternally themed fiction in 2006, but this sequel to St Aubyn’s Some Hope trilogy was...
...FICTION Compiled by Angel Gurria-Quintana Divisadero By Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury £17.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A new novel by the author of The English Patient is always worth the wait...
...Although average print-runs for local authors do not exceed 2,000 copies, Roy Jenkins’ biography of Churchill has sold 18,000, and The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, has sold 50,000 so far....
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