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Early Arrival

  She came a mite early by the calendar, fuelling gossip and glee in spiteful eyes, an autumn surprise for…

At White Cube

  The Norfolk beaches of my childhood must have been a state of grace. Within that monochrome and windy bowl…

Holland House

  Holland House: A History of London’s Most Celebrated Salon, Linda Kelly, IB Tauris, 288pp, £25 (hardback) Nearly two centuries…

Tarantula’s Web

  Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T. S. Eliot and their Circle, John Smart, Michael Russell, 343pp, £19.95 (hardback) How unpleasant…

The Infatuations

  The Infatuations, Javier Marías, Hamish Hamilton, 352pp, £18.99 (hardback) Early into The Infatuations, Javier Marías’s long awaited new novel,…

Altered States

  The Sins of the Leopard, James Brookes, Salt Publishing, 70pp, £12.95 (hardback) Harm’s Way, Conor Carville, Dedalus Press, 76pp,…

The Return of a King

  The Return of a King, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, 608pp, £25 (hardback) In the summer of 1990, at the end…

Moment at Maubeuge

  It is 1914. Maurice Baring writes of a tremendous moment at Maubeuge, seeing the arriving British troops come swinging…

A Month by the Sea

  A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza, Dervla Murphy, Eland Publishing Ltd, 224pp, £16.99 (hardback) When the great…

Two Poems

  Alien Light Lapithos. In Lapithos Light folds the sea in honey   Drowsy waves wash away the wedding feast.…

Two Poems

  Barry Island, with Dante and Ducks In the here-and the anywhere-after of the funfair, they’re bobbing, they’re jostling, as…

Christmas 1142

  Good Henry’s mother is leaving, lowered by a rope from a castle wall, barefoot into the snowy night.  …

Two Poems

  Her Children Look For Her Life and death are in the hands of God she said as a boat…

Candles for Corinne

  I’ve lost my story. Do you have one spare or know where I can find one? I’d pay good…

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