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There is only one literary news story in town at the moment: The Salt Path and
Some readers may be aware of the Observer’s literary scoop last summer: Chloe Hadjimatheou’s exposé, that is, about The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Published in 2018, this memoir tells a tale of homeles
Do not speak ill of the dead: so runs a familiar injunction, often recalled when it is already too late, and ill has been spoken. And sometimes the dead themselves set a terrible example. Consider the
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Review of reviews: Books
A letter, a book and two paintings by Tracey Emin; right, Ruth Fairlight’s copy of The Colossus Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe were both in their twenties when they met in a bookshop in Nottingham.
Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec