Short On Names, Tall On Tales
Sam Leith THE BIG HOUSE by Christopher Simon Sykes HarperCollins, £20, pp. 420, ISBN 0007107099 T wo or three years ago, I was invited with my rather posh then girlfriend to a......
The Return Of The Native
Olivia Glazebrook THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS by Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 307, ISBN 0747570345 ‘ henyou look at families, there is no such thing as normal.' Indeed......
A Selection Of Recent Paperbacks
Non-fiction: Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Phoenix, £9.99) John Clare by Jonathan Bate (Picador, £9.99) The Affair of the Poisons by Anne Somerset (Phoenix, £8.99) The......
Fiction: The Nick Of Time By Francis King (arcadia, £11.99)
No Telling by Adam Thorpe (Vintage, £7.99) The Book Against God by James Wood (Vintage, £6.99) Waxwings by Jonathan Raban (Picador, £7.99) The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd......