Marjorie Bowen Black Magic 368pp. Vintage. Paperback, £9.99. Marjorie Bowen Julia Roseingrave 256pp. British Library. Paperback, £9.99. Born in 1885, Marjorie Bowen wrote her first novel, The Viper of

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

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THE MARK OF A GREAT, TOUGH BOOK MAY NOT be how many literature classes it’s taught in but how many film or TV adaptations you can drape on its branches without breaking them. Dramatizations are tricky

Lola Young Eight Weeks Looking back, moving forwards, defying the odds 336pp. Penguin. Paperback, £10.99. Lola Young has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004. She is also an emeri

IT’S TAKEN OVER 90 YEARS, BUT FINALLY HERE COMES , AS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL GIVES NEW LIFE – AND A VOICE – TO ONE OF UNIVERSAL HORROR’S MOST ICONIC CREATIONS FOR A FEMINIST, PUNK ROCK TALE OF AMOUR FOU