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Paperbacks: Good Women Grace An Autobiography The Man Who Saved …
Good Women, By Jane Stevenson (VINTAGE £7.99 (232pp)) … 
Boyd Tonkin: A Week in Books
… enter any bookshop just now. The snowdrifts of Christmas drivel have never looked
deeper - or thicker. Dinosaur brains have bred the print equivalent of dinosaur dung. The
tide of …
Sarah May: War on the home front
… At the age of 26 she burst onto the literary scene with a bold futuristic debut,
The Nudist Colony (1999). Next came Spanish City, (2002), a historical novel set in …
Black Girl, White Girl, by Joyce Carol Oates
In this bold and distressing novel, Joyce Carol Oates subjects American race relations to
her relentless scrutiny. She has done so before in her many novels, but never with such …
The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, by Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair has toyed with crime fiction before: A Closed Book can be read as his take
on the psychological thriller. Now he turns his attention to the Mayhem Parva …
Greed, by Elfriede Jelinek, trans. Martin Chalmers
Greed was published in German in 2000, and thus made part of the oeuvre for which Elfriede
Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2004. Its plot is soon told …
Semi-Detached, by Griff Rhys Jones
Memoir is an odd genre, and increasingly popular, yet we don't seem entirely sure what
it's for. Excluding the "celebrity" memoir (and though there have been moments of
celebrity in …
The Life of Kingsley Amis, by Zachary Leader
Not long after the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote to Philip Larkin
to thank him "for stopping me from being a shit and encouraging me to …
Cover Stories: Andrew Motion; Tara Palmer-Tomkinson; Community-based reading project …
*Poet Laureate Andrew Motion pulled no punches (and spoke for countless writers) when he
called Gary McKeone's departure from the Arts Council "intensely stupid, wasteful and just
plain wrong" at …
The Best Intentions, by James Traub/ Complicity with Evil, by …
Peux ce que veux: where there's will, there's a way. These fateful words of the courageous
UN force commander in Rwanda could be the motto of the United Nations. Unfortunately …