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A complex and stylish novel of traits inherited and spurned
EDMUND GORDO
Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...
ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,
Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time
Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...
IRIS walked slowly to the front door of her Victorian villa in Fairley, a sleepy Sussex village. It had begun, she fumed silently – the “invasion” of her home. Of course, she’d been expecting it. Her
Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top