SPIES is an A-level set text, and thus a book I have had to read a number of times. And the more you read this book, the more you resent the fact that Michael Frayn’s publishers ever asked him to write it.
SINCE his monumental Underworld, Don DeLillo has understandably been producing shorter works; if that was a magisterial secret history of America in the 20th century, this could be taken as the coda required since September 11, 2001.
FRESH from her return as the new face of Asda, Victoria Wood is back on the BBC with a TV series Victoria's Empire, and this, the accompanying book of the show.
FROM the brilliant Zimbabwe-born author and journalist Peter Godwin, When A Crocodile Eats The Sun is the hotly anticipated follow-up to Mukiwa: A White Boy In Africa, and it certainly doesn't disappoint.
"WHERE are you from?" is a standard remark to make on chance acquaintance and over the years when I have replied "Padgate" to anyone now aged 65-plus, I have so often been regarded rather like someone who had uttered the word "Transylvania".
FOR all the timelessness of Lewis Carroll's great creations, he and Alice still tend to be associated with a particular place and time - a sunny afternoon on the river near Oxford.
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