Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books ...
The one snag with William Boyd’s Cold War spy novel, Gabriel’s Moon, is that it is almost too seductive; it made me read too hungrily, too fast. Its crafted prose deserves savouring as much as ...
Anne Maguire and Julie Bindel Anne: "I had read other lesbian novels but it was one of the first books that I read and I wanted to be Val. She was everything I wasn’t, I wanted to stride through ...