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Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson audiobook review – indie pop’s ultimate underdog...
14+ hour ago —...The Dry SeasonMelissa Febos, Canongate, 9hr 59minThe Girlhood author... ...Read by Kristen Sieh....
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This month’s best paperbacks: Deborah Levy, David Nicholls and more
1+ day, 12+ hour ago —...Clear Blue Sky A thrilling novel of ideas Creation Lake Rachel Kushner... ...No, as Lucy Foulkes explains in her eye-opening guide to the psychology... ...You Are Here David Nicholls Michael, 42, a bearded geography teacher... ...editor, also divorced, living in Herne Hill....
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Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell by Michael Haag review – a Mediterranean life
1+ day, 20+ hour ago —...Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell by Michael Haag review... ...on the writings of Cavafy, EM Forster and Durrell to reconstruct... ...Lawrence Durrell Sr was even that quintessential figure, a civil... ...Both Lawrence Sr and his wife, Louisa Dixie, were “country born”...
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Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review – endlessly inventive short stories
1+ day, 22+ hour ago —...The novelist David Mitchell once said that a common element in great... ...Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review – endlessly inventive short stories... ...The Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s short stories certainly qualify... ...In that sense, he resembles the science fiction writer Ted Chiang...
theguardian.com > books > jun
Poem of the week: Nest Box by Simon Armitage
3+ day, 15+ hour ago —...Dwell by Simon Armitage, illustrated by Beth Munro, is published... ...illustrated by the talented Cornish artist and printmaker, Beth...
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Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson review – a furious assault on NHS psychiatry
3+ day, 20+ hour ago —...Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson review – a furious assault on NHS... ...mental health servicesIn 2018, Christie Watson’s memoir about what... ...Patients have experienced sexual assault, childhood abuse, domestic... ...A particularly aggressive nurse called Leon tells Jackson that he...
theguardian.com > books > jun
The big idea: should we give babies the right to vote?
4+ day, 11+ hour ago —...Vote by John Wall, (Bloomsbury, £18.99)... ...the arguments for truly universal suffrage Two years ago, Alisa Perales...
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‘When I read my sister’s stories I think, that’s not what it was like!’: Esther Freud on the perils of writing about family...
4+ day, 13+ hour ago —...: Esther Freud on the perils of writing about family The Hideous... ...The Hideous Kinky author has always drawn inspiration from her own... ...from my father, Lucian Freud, during long hours of sitting for a... ...ferry from Algeciras to Tangier, breaking down on the road to Marrakech...
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1+ week, 1+ day ago —...Better Than the Movies and Nothing Like the Movies by Lynn Painter... ...Ali Novak 3....
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – a puzzle waiting to be decoded
1+ week, 10+ hour ago —...Chase Griffen recalling the moment she was told her sister, Laura... ...of convenience to Richard Griffen, the wealthy owner of a button... ...; and Jennifer Higgin is the inscrutable, complex Iris whose actions... ...Available via Little, Brown Audio, 23hr 2min...