Times change and books change with them. The Horse’s Mouth, which the Everyman editor, Christoper Reid, describes in his introduction as “by far the best known volume” of Joyce Cary’s first trilogy of

S ara lifted her hand to her forehead ...

There was a night as a boy when I couldn’t sleep ahead of a football match, too wired by thoughts of the sporting heroics I might achieve—or fall short of—the next day. While tossing and turning in my

Were Julie and Cheryl about to begin new chapters in their lives?

MARIANNE groaned as the sound of the shutters being pushed open woke her from a fitful sleep. She half-opened her eyes, but the sun streaming in was too strong. Turning over, she buried her face in th

Giles Kime presents a dramatis personae of 21st-century nuptials