From the November 2018 Issue Home & Away One Lark, One Horse By Michael Hofmann Green Noise By Jean Sprackland The Scottish Ambassador By Robert Crawford LR
From the August 2016 Issue Leaps and Bounds No Map Could Show Them By Helen Mort Undying: A Love Story By Michel Faber The Wilderness Party By A B Jackson LR
From the December 2014 Issue Making & Being New Selected Poems By P J Kavanagh Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth By Ruth Padel The Stairwell By Michael Longley LR
From the July 2014 Issue Dancing in the Dark I Knew the Bride By Hugo Williams All One Breath By John Burnside Orphan Hours By Stanley Plumly LR
From the March 2013 Issue Three New Collections Coleshill By Fiona Sampson Stag’s Leap By Sharon Olds Go Giants By Nick Laird LR
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'Thirkell was a product of her time and her class. For her there are no sacred cows, barring those that win ribbons at the Barchester Agricultural.'
The novelist Angela Thirkell is due a revival, says Patricia T O'Conner (£).
https://literaryreview.co.uk/good-gad
'Only in Britain, perhaps, could spy chiefs – conventionally viewed as masters of subterfuge – be so highly regarded as ethical guides.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-spy-who-taught-me
In this month's Bookends, @AdamCSDouglas looks at the curious life of Henry Labouchere: a friend of Bram Stoker, 'loose cannon', and architect of the law that outlawed homosexual activity in Britain.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-gross-indecency