Five writers on the five books they’d give for Christmas - BOOKS: The Independent’s writers look back on the literary year ...
Or, at least, I take solace in the characters and lives that I have read. Whether comfort or commiseration is needed, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite books to return to when the voices inside your ...
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The first Congress began in 1789, and truth be told, it wasn’t really the first. The Confederation Congress met from 1781 ...
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 ...