The GuardianTrump news update Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit The Guardian - Nick CohenAnne Applebaum can look at the wreck of democratic politics and understand it with a completeness few contemporary writers can match. When she asks who sent Britain into the unending Brexit crisis, or
The GuardianBooks In brief: The Peer and the Gangster; Tennis Lessons; To Calais, in Ordinary Time – review The Guardian - Alexander LarmanThe story of the gangster Ronnie Kray’s entanglement with the flamboyant politician Lord Boothby, and the subsequent establishment cover-up, is a revelatory and often hilarious tale of sex, class and offering
The GuardianBooks Nicola Barker: 'If I have a life philosophy, it's ferocious innocence' The Guardian - Alex PrestonIt's just so easy to love everything about Ali Smith. The whole package Nicola Barker is the author of 13 novels, including the Booker-shortlisted Darkmans (2007) and the Goldsmiths prize-winning H(a)ppy
The GuardianBooks Holiday Heart by Margarita García Robayo review – immigrant swansong The Guardian - Holly WilliamsColombian novelist, essayist and short story writer Margarita García Robayo is well known across Latin America, and widely translated, though only one collection, Fish Soup, has been available in English.
The GuardianBooks Fat Cow, Fat Chance by Jenni Murray review – well meaning but haphazard The Guardian - Rachel CookeBy trying to do everything, Fat Cow, Fat Chance does nothing properly Jenni Murray’s book about her long struggle with her weight begins as a memoir. The presenter of Woman’s Hour grew up in Barnsley,
