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The Three Graces by Amanda Craig review – trouble in paradise
The novelist’s comedy of manners about three friends’ retirement in Tuscany is an enjoyable, incident-packed study of ageing, poverty and discrimination
Alex Clark
28, May, 2023 @12:00 PM
Non, minister. Spare us the derriere sex scenes and stick to politics | Alex Clark
Bruno Le Maire isn’t the only politician to try his hand at an erotic novel, but one passage has been singled out for attention
Alex Clark
06, May, 2023 @6:02 PM
Greek Lessons by Han Kang review – studies in silence and solitude
A woman who has lost the power of speech forms a connection with a language teacher who is losing his sight in the Korean author’s striking examination of selfhood
Alex Clark
04, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant review – a many-stranded generational saga
The writer’s lively ninth novel, tracing a family’s journey from Latvia to Liverpool, explores the making of myth and history
Alex Clark
30, Apr, 2023 @12:00 PM
Baillie Gifford winner of winners James Shapiro: ‘I draw a very sharp line between fiction and nonfiction’
The 1599 author on the difference between historians and novelists, looking at Shakespeare differently and hitchhiking to the Edinburgh festival to immerse himself in the bard’s work
Alex Clark
28, Apr, 2023 @4:39 PM
In Her Nature by Rachel Hewitt review – reclaiming the great outdoors
An impressive blend of memoir and history that takes inspiration from the women written out of sporting history
Alex Clark
20, Apr, 2023 @6:30 AM
‘We want to read about people falling in love’: Curtis Sittenfeld and Marian Keyes on the romcom revival
The American and Irish novelists discuss the joys of writing romantic comedy, standing up to the critics and why we’re in a ‘golden age’ for the menopause
Alex Clark
01, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands by Dasha Kiper review – how dementia changes lives
A clinical psychologist turns the spotlight on caregivers in this profoundly compassionate study
Alex Clark
22, Mar, 2023 @7:30 AM
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein review – lyrical Trinidadian saga
The spectres of war and social injustice hang over a community battling the inexorable forces of change
Alex Clark
15, Feb, 2023 @9:00 AM
A regional accent can take you a long way. Just ask Daniel Craig | Alex Clark
Richard E Grant’s late wife, Joan Washington, knew the right moments to recall her Aberdonian roots. Sometimes it’s all about delivery
Alex Clark
15, Jan, 2023 @7:30 AM
The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett review – reflections on the feline
An affecting memoir that uses cats and our attitudes towards them to explore PTSD, separation, love and family
Alex Clark
13, Jan, 2023 @7:30 AM
Fay Weldon: a defiant writer who was thoroughly wised-up
The writer, who has died aged 91, channelled the apocalyptic power of the betrayed and rejected – making her novels immensely liberating
Alex Clark
05, Jan, 2023 @3:41 PM
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