Books & Poetry

This beautifully packaged collection of oddities is just the sort of thing only a grande dame (would she resent the term? Probably) could get away with. The 35 disparate short pieces, many written...

Set against a backdrop of 1960s South Africa, where apartheid sullies all, Glass's debut novel for young adults is an end-of-innocence story that weaves sensory overload and Zulu folklore with...

NME has always been a magnet for young men seeking to attach themselves to the rising stars of the day. In collusion with shrewd PRs, adventure-hungry snappers and fast friendships with the bands...

When Irene Nemirovsky and her husband were taken to Auschwitz in 1942, their two daughters went into hiding with a small suitcase containing their essentials and the notebook in which sheÕd...

Criticisms of the Iraq war have come from all angles, but Fukuyama is the first prominent member of the New Right to join the fray. Once a proud neocon, the egghead now rejects that label, largely...

We are told never to judge a book by its cover, but that of ÔThe Truth about Sascha KnischÕ is revealing in more ways than one. A woman (or is it a man? Or a man dressed up as a...

Mary Loudon’s sister Catherine led an extraordinary life. Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager, she spent her youth snarling and fighting against her cosy, middle-class upbringing,...

‘Among Ruins’ tells the rather sordid story of Laura, the daughter of a joyless mother and a father who gambles away the family estate, necessitating relocation to a more modest house...

Coerced into existential crisis by an offhand glass of wine to the face, Stefan Vogel is the poet, fraudster and all-round tormented soul of this fictional memoir (or ‘me-moir’) in...

At a time when sensitivity to the feelings and values of diverse ethnic, faith and minority communities could not be more widespread or politically demanded, it remains extraordinary – and...