DJ Taylor
Derby Day
Editors' choice
Any reader who likes the gentle and considered narratives of the novels of Trollope or Thackeray should enjoy this work…
Bright Young People
This is a fascinating study of the amorphous body of brittle, peacock-brilliant hedonists who in the 1920s came to be…
Kept
Set in 1860s England, this literary novel is very much in the style of well-known Victorian fiction, but it…
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