Prose that reads like gunfire

HANDLEBARS FREEWHEELING Essays on cycling 160pp. Daunt. ...

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

Muriel Spark led an implausible life. Born into straitened circumstances in Edinburgh as the First World War came to an end, she shone at school before moving to one of the least glamorous corners of

I n the corner of the drawing room ...