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Lanchester, John Family Romance: A Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review) 

Lanchester, John Family Romance: A Love Story. John Lanchester. New York: Putnam; Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. 368 pp. $27.95; 36.99. ...

last of the vintage wine, The 

The last of the vintage wine QUICKSANDS: A MEMOIR by Sybille Bedford Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 370, ISBN 0241140374...

My mental health: novelist Hilary Mantel recalls the pain she experienced as a young woman and the anguish of not being heard by psychiatrists. (opinion). 

Kidnapped, duped and disappointed 

BALTHASAR'S ODYSSEY by Amin Maalouf, translated by Barbara Bray Harvill, L16.99, pp. 391, ISBN 1860469922 We are approaching 1666, `The Year of...

Craving fire and ardour 

YOUTH by J. M. Coetzee Secker & Warburg, L14.99, pp. 169, ISBN 0436205823 It must have been hard to grow up in apartheid South Africa: how do you...

A fine little malice machine 

THE LAYING ON OF HANDS by Alan Bennett Profile/LRB, L16.99, pp. 110, ISBN 1861973748 In his recent TV series, Telling Tales, Alan Bennett claimed...

Hilary Mantel. - Review - book review 

Hilary Mantel is the author of eight novels, of which the latest is The Giant, O'Brien (Henry Holt). She lives in England. Hilary Mantel is the...

From Hell to the arms of Jesus 

From Hell to the arms of Jesus Hilary Mantel ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE by Andrea Ashworth Picador, L14.99, pp. 336 It is a fact about childhood...