Book review: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride has a mythic quality
Strange Hotel, Eimear McBride, Faber & Faber, £12.99
Fascinating biography of Church of Scotland moderator tells the story of the Kirk's decline
Nevile Davidson: A Life to be Lived
Book review: It Started in a Cupboard by Kenneth Calman
It Started in a Cupboard: Adventures in Learning and Happiness
Review of Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout: 'Suffused with loss and sorrow, filled with moments of joy and expectation'
Olive Kitteridge, a painfully honest maths teacher in the coastal town of Crosby, Maine, first appeared in Elizabeth Strout’s eponymous novel, which later became a film, memorably starring Frances McDormand.
Review: Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
Until she was seven, Elizabeth Bowen spent her summers at Bowen’s Court, the family estate in County Cork, and the winters in Dublin, where her father was a lawyer
Platform Seven, by Louise Doughty
Peterborough train station is, for travellers, a sort of limbo through which they must pass to reach London, East Anglia, the Midlands or the north.
Review: On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons, by Laura Cumming
“The lives of our parents before we were born are surely the first great mystery," writes Laura Cumming...
