And yet you’re still here

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

Review of reviews: Books

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

I n the corner of the drawing room ...

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...