Beyond childhood and evil

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Prospect Magazine

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The Critic

Life, imaginary love and forbidden lust

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Prospect

Poetry in motion

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

The TLS

In brief: animals

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

Good Housekeeping - UK

Bookshelf

GH ’s books director, Joanne Finney, shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases

My Weekly

My life in books

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo