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The difficulties of writing historical fiction

Books

Book Review
Sunil Amrith’s The Burning Earth bristles with indignation
By Peter Frankopan
Book Review
Alice Hunt on the flowering enlightenment of revolutionary Britain
By Marcus Nevitt
And Finally
Why aren’t pirates scary anymore?
By Melanie McDonagh
Book Review
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest novel is as unsettling as his previous ones
By Leyla Sanai
Book Review
Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book constructs entire dystopian futures
By James Ball
Book Review
Did the UK gain anything from the 1942 Bruneval raid?
By Jonathan Boff
Uncategorized
Michel Houellebecq’s new novel is worthy of Balzac
By David Sexton
Book Review
Intermezzo is a wish-fulfillment romance
By Claire Lowdon
Book Review
Entitlement engrossingly explores the pitfalls of privilege and philanthropy
By Jude Cook
Book Review
The kind light India radiates throughout Asia
By Christopher Harding
Uncategorized
Simone Weil had a troublesome idealism
By Lucasta Miller
Book Review
Question 7 is the archetypal Richard Flanagan
By A.S.H. Smyth
Book Review
Lee Child’s new book has tales with a twist
By Honor Clerk
Book Review
Will Self’s impressive paean to his mother’s frustrating life in the US
By Philip Womack
Book Review
The chameleonic life of Claire Clairmont
By Suzi Feay
Book Review
Hettie Judah explores the history of motherhood
By Joanna Pocock
Book Review
Are bureaucrats really the enemies?
By Francis Beckett
Book Review
Iris Apfel and the importance of individuality
By Anne de Courcy

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