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About. Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction.Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading …
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 …
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Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on …
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Martyn Bedford
PEOPLE ARE DRAWN to the Niagara Falls for many reasons, but this awesome spectacle holds a peculiar magnetism for those at an emotional extreme (honeymooners and the suicidal are …
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The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan - review by Adrian Turpin
In its title alone, Andrew O’Hagan’s fifth novel packs in a lot. The Illuminations refers to the famous Blackpool lights, to tracer fire over Helmand and to the moments of lucidity …
Fallout by Sadie Jones - review by Suzi Feay
Sadie Jones has had a glittering career since her first novel, The Outcast (2008), garnered comparisons to Ian McEwan’s Atonement.She specialises in emotional trauma in historical …
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
W ith The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, …