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Forbidden Fruit
BY CHRISTIANE INMANN T his elegant and unique book is perhaps the first look at the relationship between women and reading. Of course, these days, the majority of readers are......
Moscow Soloists
The Grammy Award-winning Moscow Soloists will perform at The Barbican on Tuesday evening. The string orchestra will be led by world-famous soloists, Yuri Bashmet......
The Last Station
Based on Jay Parini’s biographical novel of Leo Tolstoy, this Germanmade, English-language films stars Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as Leo and Sofya Tolstoy, with......
Ghosts
The English critics were quick to condemn Ibsen and the audience, who attended its London premiere in 1891, and described Ghosts as “The most loathsome play that was ever put......
Battling The Terrifying Mystery Of Malice
CLASSIC CATHOLIC BOOK Diary of a Country Priest BY GEORGES BERNANOS A n earlier writer of this column, discussing Georges Bernanos’s Under Satan’s Sun , concluded that its......
How Earth Made Us
This five-part series has looked at how natural forces have shaped human history, and so rather inevitably the final part deals with our impact on the planet. But as presenter......
Johnny Cash: American Vi
In his twilight years Johnny Cash made an astonishing comeback with five albums produced by the masterful Rick Rubin. This, the last of the celebrated “American Recordings”,......
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This is an animated adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future where the world’s machines have turned on mankind and destroy evertthing. A small group of rag doll-like creatures......
One Moment, One Morning By Sarah Rayner (picador, £10.99)...
idea that a moment can change an entire human life is not a new one. Still, One Moment , One Morning manages to turn the premise into a readable and not particularly taxing......
Waiting For Columbus By Thomas Trofimuk (picador, £10.99)...
turns up at an asylum in Spain claiming to be Christopher Columbus. Found almost naked by the Straits of Gibraltar, “Columbus” seems at first to be just another mental patient,......
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence By Gordon Burn (faber,
£20) Gordon Burn’s sudden death last year was both a shock and an immense loss to British letters. Over the course of a wide and varied career he wrote novels about old age and......
The Art Of Political Murder By Francisco Goldman...
From 1960 to 1996 Guatemala, a small, poor and predominantly indigenous central American country, endured the longest civil war in Latin American history, as the USbacked......
Croc Attack! By Assaf Gavron (4th Estate, £11.99) Assaf...
may be a new name to readers here but in his native Israel he is fast becoming a star with four novels under his belt, a collection of short stories and several reviews. Croc......