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The husband and wife who translated Kafka and other German masters
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
A revelatory history of Scottish verse, from Columba to Carol Ann Duffy
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…
A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias
For almost 30 years, Valerie Finnis was a distinguished and charismatic teacher at the Waterperry Horticultural school for Women, near Oxford, founded in 1932 by the fearsomely smocked and gaitered Be
