The novel Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel was published in 1965. It was republished late last year. On the front cover there is a quote from th...
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Read MoreFICTION: Peaking one’s interest
This is a clever book but not to the extent that it’s too clever by half. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (the jacket is shown on the ...
Read MoreFICTION: Swanning around to malevolent effect
Ayn Rand gets a rather bad press these days. No wonder – she is reputedly President Trump’s favourite author. And perhaps there’s sm...
Read MoreFICTION: Ayn Rand enjoying a renaissance
Stieg Larsson’s first book in his Millennium trilogy was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, published in 2005. (A photo of the cover is on the ho...
Read MoreFICTION: Life after Larsson…but have we now had a surfeit of Salander?
First, a (very) brief history lesson. In 1938, Evelyn Waugh published Scoop, a lively and evocative satire about life in Fleet Street. The newspaper i...
Read MoreFICTION: A beastly profession
On ‘Super Thursday’, the big autumn book-publishing date which this year fell on September 7, the chief offering from Penguin Viking was t...
Read MoreFICTION: John le Carré carries on spying
The first film blog I posted was about Kill Your Friends, the cinematic release based on the black-comedy John Niven novel of the same title, publishe...
Read MoreFICTION: In fact a few good deeds in this work of fiction…but they come at a price
Howard Jacobson is a past winner of the Man Booker Prize, in 2010 for The Finkler Question. His latest novel, the cover of which is shown on the home ...
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