Jonathan Cape (UK)
The Religion
British novelist Tim Willocks is good at evoking the unfamiliar, so perhaps it’s inevitable that he should turn eventually to…
The Friends Of Meager Fortune
From the first page of celebrated Canadian author Richards’ (River of the Brokenhearted) latest novel, the reader knows that this…
Arthur and George
I should perhaps point out that as Julian Barnes is one of my favourite contemporary prose writers, I approached his…
Civilization: A New History of the Western World
From cave paintings to post 9/11, this book is a treasury. New light on the Mesolithic; illumination of the Dark…
The Big Oyster: New York in the World, A Molluscular History
This book is on a most unusual theme: the history of New York, as seen in relation to the oyster…
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