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The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

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

Gonçalo M. Tavares O Fim dos Estados Unidos de América Epopeia 912pp. Relógio d’Água. €28. In an essay written in 1949, Jorge Luis Borges declared that the allegory was “an aesthetic error”. He confes

Michael D. C. Drout The Tower and the Ruin J. R. R. Tolkien’s creation 384pp. Norton. £25. Giuseppe Pezzini Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation 456pp. Cambridge University Press. £30. Michael