Odd ones out

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The winner of this year’s Nobel writings intended for silent, private prize in

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The TLS Magazine

29 September, 2023

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In brief

Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...

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In the bogs

Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the o

Writing Magazine

Bringing a novel into being

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

The TLS

Lioness of god

The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel

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Where are we now?

My Berlin probably peaked on 9th November 2014. In a spacious borrowed flat in Mitte, not far from trendy Arkonaplatz, I had countersigned a passport application for a baby just born to friends: Briti