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WEBSep 17, 2015 · In the Current Issue: ‘The post-mortem of Susan Jessica Hand who was going on thirteen years old showed the presence in her vagina of semen, saliva bearing the trace of alcoholic spirit, and sheep’s faeces.’ Working from the McEwan paradigm that established the short story as something nasty and brutal these opening lines describe a fairly typical event in the world of Meades’s fiction ...
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - review by Hilary Mantel
WEBSep 1, 1996 · By Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury 480pp £15.99. In Margaret Atwood’s brilliant new novel of nineteenth-century Canada there is a character called Jeremiah, a pedlar, whose diverse and enticing wares are welcomed in almost any house. Some of his linens and ribbons are new, and some are what is …
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Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
WEBSep 1, 1990 · By Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson 1212pp £19.95. ‘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 ...
Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch - review by Jane Gardam
WEBBy Iris Murdoch. A few friends meet on a midsummer night, the eve of a wedding they have long been working for. It will unite two people they all love and two English country houses that have stood near each other but at sword-point for centuries. After her and toasts to the morrow they wander out in pairs into the starlit garden of one of the ...
Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale - review by Alexander Larman
WEBTinder Press 406pp £20. The Cornish poet Charles Causley might be an underappreciated figure today, but his fictionalised representation in Patrick Gale’s new novel should do much to introduce his work to a new audience, assuming that Mother’s Boy enjoys the success of Gale’s previous books A Place Called Winter and Notes from an Exhibition.
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WEBThe Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation. By Andrew Motion & Stephen Regan (EDD) December 2023 Issue. Rowan Williams.
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