December round-up Although he’s been writing and performing for many years, Donald WG Lindsay might come across as a bold new Scottish talent on Two Boats Under the Moon, his excellent two-disc debut

The memoirs of a high- and lowbrow émigré composer

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

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MICHELE RUSPOLI felt a little less agitated, now that he was inside the library, but all around was evidence of the flood. Books had been laid out haphazardly on pieces of matting, all leather-bound,