The GuardianBooks Unfinished Dick King-Smith book completed by great-granddaughterverified_publisher The Guardian - Alison FloodAn unfinished manuscript by the late children’s author Dick King-Smith that was discovered in his daughter’s loft will be published this year, after it was completed by his great-granddaughter. Beloved...
The GuardianPoetry Poem of the week: Norfolk Sprung Thee … by Henry Howardverified_publisher The Guardian - Carol RumensNorfolk Sprung Thee, Lambeth Holds Thee Dead Norfolk sprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead; Clere, of the Count of Cleremont, thou hight! Within the womb of Ormond’s race thou bred And saw’st thy cousin...
The GuardianMiddle East Factory Summers by Guy Delisle review – trouble at the millverified_publisher The Guardian - Rachel CookeGuy Delisle is best known for his brilliant, offbeat travelogues (Burma Chronicles, Pyongyang, Jerusalem) and, more recently, for Hostage, his extraordinary account of the kidnapping of Christophe André...
The GuardianBooks Will This House Last Forever? by Xanthi Barker review – a daughter’s attempt to understand her absent fatherverified_publisher The Guardian - Kate KellawayThe father of this book’s subtitle (On Losing a Father) is – was – the poet Sebastian Barker. The tense in which he exists is unstable in Xanthi Barker’s complicatedly nuanced, absorbing and moving memoir....
The GuardianU.S. Politics Trump proposed sending Americans with Covid to Guantánamo, book claimsverified_publisher Guardian US - Martin Pengelly in New YorkIn the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump advocated shipping Americans who contracted Covid-19 abroad to Guantánamo Bay. The stunning revelation is contained in a new book, Nightmare...
The GuardianGaza Donations flood in to restore Gaza bookshop destroyed by Israeli airstrikesverified_publisher The Guardian - Alison FloodDonations of money and books from around the world have flooded in to help rebuild one of Gaza’s largest booksellers, the two-storey Samir Mansour bookshop, which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes May....
The GuardianU.S. Politics ‘We dodged a mortar round’: George Packer on America in crisisverified_publisher The Guardian - Julian BorgerWhen the pandemic struck, George Packer moved his family out of the city and upstate into the countryside. The move forced one America’s most celebrated and decorated non-fiction writers, famous for his...
The GuardianU.S. Politics Last Best Hope review: George Packer’s elegant dissection of America in crisisverified_publisher The Guardian - Charles KaiserIn 2021, almost nothing is harder to write than a fresh take on the multiple crises confronting post-Trump America. But with this sharp, short new book, that is exactly what George Packer has given us,...
The GuardianBooks The Coward by Jarred McGinnis review – all kinds of hurtverified_publisher The Guardian - Holly WilliamsJarred McGinnis’s debut novel draws on his own experience of living with a disability, and his protagonist shares his name. “The distance between fiction and memoir is measured in self-delusion,” McGinnis...
The GuardianFC Barcelona Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson review – a magical homage to Cataloniaverified_publisher The Guardian - Rob DoyleI want to admit that, although he has written a dozen novels and a memoir, all apparently much loved and acclaimed, I have somehow never read Rupert Thomson’s work until now. I feel it worth mentioning...
The GuardianBooks Two Hitlers and a Marilyn by Adam Andrusier review – memoir of a driven autograph hunterverified_publisher The Guardian - Anthony QuinnThe obsessiveness – the downright creepiness – of the collector is amusingly skewered in this memoir of rueful self-absorption. In the 1980s, long before selfies, autographs were the accepted means of...
