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Happy Families By Carlos Fuentes Translated by Edith Grossman Bloomsbury £8.99, 332 pages FT Bookshop price: £7.19 Themes of domestic iconoclasm, father-child relationships and civil unrest dominate Fuentes’ 16 punchy tales,...
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: Mortality, the Corpse and the Fiction of Will Self. Death, according to Jacque Lynn Foltyn, has replaced sex as the 21st century’s definitive taboo. While the...
Bloomsbury. 347 pp. Paperback, $22.95 Though it may serve as a primer on early 20th-century philosophy and mathematics, "Logicomix" is no textbook -- it's a comic book. "The form is perfect for stories of heroes in search of...
Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's the first impression you...
Fresh goose, allotment veg and our own cherry brandy My Christmas begins at 3pm on Christmas Eve, when I turn on Radio 4 to hear the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. At the same time I pour the pink champagne. Already on...
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...
Edward Gorey's strange and twisted illustrations, often coupled with his similarly odd prose, illustrates this inimitable book of manners "The Recently Deflowered Girl." Written by Mel Juffe under... Visit coolhunting.com for...
Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world war The friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student...
The election of Barack Obama lifted the hopes of millions of people, not least the many Americans who are passionate about food. But 11 months into the Obama administration, it seems the biggest winner in the culinary realm is...
Sue Arnold on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Crichton, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Gaiman and others Breaking Dawn , by Stephenie Meyer, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters (21hrs unabridged, Hachette, £24.99) Having been rudely...
