The scars of love

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...

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

HEADWORDS SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY A dictionary JANICE ...

ILLUMINATORS THE ART OF THE SCRIBE Practical ...

THE last specks of rain of the previous night’s storm pattered against the widow of the drawing-room. Meryl Stewart sat at the keyboard of her baby grand, working her way through the piano arrangement