A dark tale of a marital stand-off

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A love-hate relationship recalled by France’s ‘greatest living writer’

The unconventional instrumentation favoured by Tortoise is an indicator of how many different lineups have always jostled for space under the jazz umbrella. The national treasure that is The Pete Alle

An authoritative, questioning, ‘final’ not-quite-novel

A critic with ‘an almost devout passion for good poems’