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Literary Review is a monthly magazine that covers a wide range of books, from history and biography to memoir and fiction. It features reviews by leading authors, journalists and academics, and offers a subscription service, a digital archive and a bookshop.
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In the Current Issue: At the age of thirty-seven William Morris went off to Iceland to reassess his life (or lives) to date. From a sunny, well-heeled childhood – his father was a bill broker who died shortly and luckily before his business collapsed – Morris went to rough-tough Marlborough, where he learnt next to nothing because, he said, 'next to nothing was taught', and on to Exeter ...
Eleni by Nicholas Gage - review by Christopher Hitchens - Literary …
Christopher Hitchens: Revenge is Sour - Eleni by Nicholas Gage. Read more by Christopher Hitchens Enoch Who Hurt Me So Dreadfully Self-Castrated Beaver
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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux - review by Allan Massie - Literary …
Paul Theroux is the author of more than fifty books. Thirty-three of them have been novels – and this is the thirty-fourth. While assiduous and always interesting as a novelist, he is probably better known for his travel books, some of which have been bestsellers.
Gallowglass by Barbara Vine - review by Philip Oakes
Philip Oakes: Special Brew - Gallowglass by Barbara Vine. Read more by Philip Oakes December 1989 Crime Round-up Bloody and For Real
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire for control – to see Dickens thus is to turn biography into an agent of true knowledge…’
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell - review by Sarah Crown
There is a scene at the opening of Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel in which the tone for the tale is set. Seven-year-old Lucrezia di Cosimo de’ Medici – destined to be married at thirteen to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, and to die just three years later – follows her father, the Duke of Florence, down into the cellar of his palazzo, in which his collection of exotic creatures is housed.