Carole Angier
O Unlucky Man
Alexander The Corrector: The Tormented Genius Who Unwrote the Bible
By Julia Keay
HarperCollins 296pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
CRUDEN’S COMPLETE CONCORDANCE to the Old and New Testaments may no longer be the best-known book in our benighted age, but to anyone wanting to identify or even employ (it does happen) a biblical quotation, it is essential. It has never been out of print for 250 years. It is as important a tool to any researcher as the OED, which in its prodigious completeness it closely resembles.
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Don't forget to enter the competition to win a year's @royalacademy membership and a year's subscription to Literary Review.
Entries close on the 18th December.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/page/ra-competition-literary-review-2019
'Together the Marcoses established a new style of deluxe autocracy, one characterised by glitz and kleptomaniac graft.'
Peter Conrad on Lauren Greenfield's new documentary about Imelda Marcos, 'The Kingmaker'.
http://ow.ly/FFSg50xsH7D
Thrillers by @sophiehannahCB1, @ccmacdwriter, Rebecca Wait, @deborah_masson, @helensedgwick, Chris Hammer, @stephycha, @McCrumMark, @LesleyKara and @BarryForshaw3.
PLUS, @NJCooper_crime picks her favourite crime novels of 2019.
http://ow.ly/YjiP50xrsnl