Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads
The founders of the prize created a tension between high-mindedness and readability
Separateness is the theme of this moving, strangely disturbing memoir
The defence of journalism in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is what marks it out as a novel for our times
The triumph and torment of the American playwright
Golden-age writers offer enduring insights on unfairness, writes John Sutherland
Elmore Leonard, novelist, 1925-2013
John Sutherland’s idiosyncratic and erudite compendium of fiction writers’ biographies
Single account will allow savers to spread deposits across institutions
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