One day, while living with her husband in London, Elisabeth Payne Rosen spilled her groceries in front of the Duke of York’s Barracks on King’s Road and in a flash of inspiration, decided that she wanted to know everything about the American Civil War. Rosen’s ensuing research is presented in her first novel “Hallam’s Warâ€â€”the [...]
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Mortality defines the human condition. “We all have our dead-we all have our
Graves,” a Confederate Episcopal bishop observed in an 1862 sermon. Every era,
he explained, must confront “like miseries”; every age must search for “like
consolation.” Yet death has its discontinuities as well. Men and women approach
death in ways shaped by history, by culture, by conditions [...]
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Jan
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THE author George MacDonald Fraser, creator of the arch-rogue Harry Flashman, who galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanised his way throu gh many of the [...]
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Dec
The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling 452pp, Bloomsbury, %26pound;12.99The great swell of novel writing which peaked in the late 1850s and 60s has yielded rich pickings for literary pastiche, not least because what the Victorians merely hinted at, contemporary authors have free rein to fully realise. Peter Carey, Michel Faber, Sarah Waters and, [...]
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Dec
FICTION Suite Fran%26ccedil;aise by Ir%26egrave;ne N%26eacute;mirovsky (Vintage %26pound;7.99) A
modern classic: second-world-war France gets the War and Peace treatment in
two superb novellas, written by an author who died in Auschwitz
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Picador %26pound;7.99) An uncompromising vision of
postapocalyptic hell, as a father and son search desperately for safety in
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Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen (Bloomsbury [...]
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