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

THE LIBRARY OF TRAUMATIC MEMORY Tragic moments ★ ...

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

The beauty of Lancashire’s Lune valley emerges from ...

The Disappearing Act concerns a novelist in her fifties who lives in an unnamed European country and is on her way to a literary festival in an unnamed location. Her name is given only as “M”. We vagu

Anne Weber Sanderling Translated by Neil Blackadder 240pp. Indigo Press. £14.99. The past is not closed; it reaches into us. “For Germans”, Anne Weber recently said, “it’s like discovering your father