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WEBLiterary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London. September 2024, Issue 533 Claire Harman on female detectives * Georgina Adam on art market scandal * John Keay on the Indosphere * Philip Womack ...
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WEBIn the Current Issue: During 1993, twenty-one people were tortured to death in Turkish prisons. Figures of this kind are largely meaningless, but the casual brutality from which they died and the obvious indifference of the Turkish government to world disapproval are not. Four of them, according to officials, died of heart attacks; five committed suicide - one by jumping from a four-foot-high ...
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
WEBSep 1, 1990 · By Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson 1212pp £19.95. ‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire ...
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WEBLR. For People Who Devour Books. Only a selection of our reviews and articles are free. Subscribers receive the monthly magazine and access to all articles on our website. Articles marked LR are only available to subscribers. Subscribe Today! Home » Current Issue ». top. Claire Harman on female detectives * Georgina Adam on art market scandal ...
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WEBAbout. Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction.Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields. It aims to reach a wide audience of readers who enjoy intelligent and accessible writing.
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WEBFresh discoveries for even the most avid reader. Subscribe to Literary Review today and enjoy: Eleven illustrated issues per year, delivered to your letterbox Bumper double issue for December and January Unlimited access to the website online archive, extending back to 1979 Unlimited access to the Literary Review app (available on Apple devices and Kindle Fire) To contact the...
Thermopylae: Great Battles by Chris Carey - review by Paul Cartledge
WEBChris Carey’s excellent new book, the tenth in Oxford University Press’s Great Battles series, answers the call. Carey, who teaches at University College London, is, however, reflective enough to ask whether the battle was really ‘great’. The book falls into two halves. The first examines how and precisely where the battle was fought ...
The Promise by Damon Galgut - review by David Isaacs - Literary …
WEBThe Uncle Charles Principle ‘entails writing about someone much as that someone would choose to be written about’. In his strange, skilful, spellbinding eighth novel, The Promise, the South African author Damon Galgut modifies this principle. Galgut’s third-person narrator swings, like Joyce’s, effortlessly from character to character ...
GB84 by David Peace - review by The Miner's Tale - Literary Review
WEBIn this book about the miners' strike of 1984, telling a story he describes as 'a fiction, based on a fact', Peace ranges beyond the history we know - the television images of police and pickets battling in the sunshine - into a secretive world of murk and mendacity. The action of GB84 shifts in jagged cuts between the darkening NUM head ...
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period - Literary Review
WEBBy William St Clair. Cambridge University Press 765pp £90. AS EVERY HARASSED commuter knows, there would seem to be no more private activity than reading. Open a novel and you leave behind the torture of the 6.20 from Paddington or Victoria for the world you share with your favourite authors. Look down the carriage and you will see fellow ...
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