Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's ...

Thom Gunn started out as a member of the Movement, that 1950s collection of like-minded British poets, but he looks now like a consistent outsider. When he left England and went to America, he ...

Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley. In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's ...

Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed) ...

Using black-and-white photographs printed directly onto the page, Hornby found a playful, metatextual way to illustrate his ...

At the age of thirty-seven William Morris went off to Iceland to reassess his life (or lives) to date. From a sunny, well-heeled childhood – his father was a bill broker who died shortly and luckily ...

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In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his ...

With his debut novel, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, the Guardian journalist Xan Brooks proved himself a writer of solidly constructed historical fiction. In his second book, he ...