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april 2 0 2 4 • i s s u e 5 2 8 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Assistant Editor Leo Robson Editorial Assistant Zoe Guttenplan Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Print & Circulation Manager Mark Jones Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. 2 Literary Review | april 2024 diary Miranda Seymour british isles John Keay Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney Peter Marshall Richard Vinen England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country and How to Set Them Straight Tom Baldwin & Marc Stears Malachi O’Doherty Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Espionage, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland Henry Hemming Stakeknife’s Dirty War Richard O’Rawe music Richard Williams Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan • The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins Sam V H Reese (ed) Jon Savage Pulp’s This is Hardcore Jane Savidge Deborah Levy Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders f rom Mars Suzi Ronson history Levi Roach House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France Justine Firnhaber-Baker Suzannah Lipscomb The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens Nicola Clark Ben Wilson Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain Madeleine Pelling Mark Cornwall Days in Prague: The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe Ann Shukman Stephen Bates The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation Sarah Wise fashion Lucy Moore Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Anne Higonnet Sophie Oliver All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power – Stories f rom the Frontline of Beauty – Virginia Nicholson
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biography Susan Owens Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann Harriet Baker Caroline Moorehead Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement Roland Philipps Clare Mulley Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War We n d y M o o r e foreign parts Alan Ryan America Last: The Right ’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Jacob Heilbrunn Stephen Vines Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong Michael C Davis Gillian Slovo Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Af rica Cato Pedder exhibition Zoe Dubno ‘The Art of the Literary Poster’ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York bibliomania Adrian Tinniswood The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Remarkable Lives Adam Smyth Nigel Andrew The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime That Fooled the World Joseph Hone Rosa Lyster The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind way of the world Deirdre Nansen McCloskey The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society Joseph E Stiglitz Frances Cairncross The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – and How the World Lost Its Mind Dan Davies Sarah Dunant Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power Erica Benner general Oliver Soden Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World Kathryn Hughes Mark Blacklock Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World Dorian Lynskey Charlie Campbell The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic Daniel de Visé Rupert Christiansen The Swans of Harlem: Fifty Years of Sisterhood, Five Black Ballerinas, One Incredible Story Karen Valby Tom Fort Hedgelands: A Wild Wander around Britain’s Greatest Habitat Christopher Hart, with Jonathan Thomson fiction James Campbell James Percival Everett Stevie Davies You Are Here David Nicholls M John Harrison The Hole Hiroko Oyamada James Womack Until August Gabriel García Márquez Tancred Newbury Pariah Genius: John Deakin and the Soho Court around Francis Bacon – A Psychobiographic Fiction Iain Sinclair Julia Jordan Tell Jonathan Buckley Chris Power The Children’s Bach Helen Garner Ashani Lewis Grow Where They Fall Michael Donkor c h i l d r e n ’ s b o o k s Philip Womack Four new books for young readers f i c t i o n i n b r i e f The Spoiled Heart Sunjeev Sahota • The Hypocrite Jo Hamya The Morningside Téa Obreht crime Natasha Cooper silenced voices Lucy Popescu Narges Mohammadi bookends Tim Brinkhof Learning from Werewolves LR Bookshop Letters Crossword april 2024 | Literary Review 3

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biography Susan Owens

Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann Harriet Baker Caroline Moorehead

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement Roland Philipps Clare Mulley

Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War We n d y M o o r e foreign parts Alan Ryan

America Last: The Right ’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Jacob Heilbrunn Stephen Vines

Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong Michael C Davis Gillian Slovo

Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Af rica Cato Pedder exhibition Zoe Dubno

‘The Art of the Literary Poster’ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York bibliomania Adrian Tinniswood

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Remarkable Lives Adam Smyth Nigel Andrew

The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime That Fooled the World Joseph Hone Rosa Lyster

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind way of the world Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society Joseph E Stiglitz Frances Cairncross

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – and How the World Lost Its Mind Dan Davies Sarah Dunant

Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power Erica Benner general Oliver Soden

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World Kathryn Hughes Mark Blacklock

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World Dorian Lynskey Charlie Campbell

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic Daniel de Visé Rupert Christiansen

The Swans of Harlem: Fifty Years of Sisterhood, Five Black Ballerinas, One Incredible Story Karen Valby Tom Fort

Hedgelands: A Wild Wander around Britain’s Greatest Habitat Christopher Hart, with Jonathan Thomson fiction James Campbell James Percival Everett Stevie Davies You Are Here David Nicholls M John Harrison The Hole Hiroko Oyamada James Womack Until August Gabriel García Márquez Tancred Newbury Pariah Genius: John Deakin and the

Soho Court around Francis Bacon – A Psychobiographic Fiction Iain Sinclair Julia Jordan Tell Jonathan Buckley Chris Power The Children’s Bach Helen Garner Ashani Lewis Grow Where They Fall Michael Donkor c h i l d r e n ’ s b o o k s Philip Womack Four new books for young readers f i c t i o n i n b r i e f The Spoiled Heart Sunjeev Sahota • The Hypocrite Jo Hamya

The Morningside Téa Obreht crime Natasha Cooper silenced voices Lucy Popescu Narges Mohammadi bookends Tim Brinkhof Learning from Werewolves

LR Bookshop Letters Crossword april 2024 | Literary Review

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