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The Strange, Prickly Ways Of Flannery O’connor
Flannery: A life of Flannery O’Connor BY BRAD GOOCH LITTLE, BROWN, £16 U ntil recently there has been no major literary biography of Flannery O’Connor. Her quiet life in rural......
Italyʼs Sorrow By James Holland (harper, £9.99) The War In
Italy that followed the Allied invasion in 1943 and the overthrow of Mussolini grew in brutality over two years as Germans fought Americans, Kiwis, Australians and Poles, and......
Four Queens By Nancy Goldstone (phoenix Books, £8.99)...
details the lives and fortunes of four Provençal sisters who came from near obscurity and yet ended up becoming queens of England, France, Germany and Sicily during the 13th......
The Whole Day Through By Patrick Gale (fourth Estate, £7.99)
The cover might make it look like a mixture of chick lit and misery memoir, but this latest work by the respected author is anything but. Primarily it is a tale of sacrifice:......
The Lace Reader By Brunonia Barry (harper Press, £12.99)...
Barry’s The Lace Reader has all the worst aspects of mystery and the worst elements of chick lit without giving the satisfaction of either genre. Salem, Massachusetts, is not......
Marching To The Fault Line By Francis Beckett And David
Hencke (Constable, £18.99) According to the press release the 1984 miner’s strike was not only the most significant political turning point in 20th-century British history but......
Opera
Parthenogenesis LINBURY STUDIO THEATRE, ROH, JUNE 11 Parthenogenesis , composed and conducted by James MacMillan with a libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts, takes as a fairly......
Christopher Langdown
WIGMORE HALL, 7.30PM, TUESDAY JUNE 9 Catholic pianist Christopher Langdown will perform the London premiere of his sacred piano piece Deo Omnis Gloria alongside Beethoven’s......
Cinema
Sugar 15 CERT, 120 MINS Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the writer and director of the Oscarnominated Half Nelson, have excited critics in America with their second film Sugar . It......
Theatre
Arcadia DUKE OF YORKʼS THEATRE, LONDON This is a major revival of one of Tom Stoppard’s most popular plays, in which he writes about determinism and free will and attempts to......
Television
D-Day 65: The Veterans Return BBC ONE, 4.20PM, SATURDAY JUNE 6 Fiona Bruce, James Naughtie and Dan Snow report live from Normandy on events marking the 65th anniversary of......
Dvd
Milk £17.99, MOMENTUM Harvey Milk was a leading gay rights activist in 1970s California, the first openly gay man elected to public office in the US, in 1977. He then joined a......