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Trauma
by Patrick McGrath; Bloomsbury 224pp; £15.99Charlie Weir, the narrator of Patrick McGrath's latest novel, is a New York psychiatrist who helps returning Vietnam veterans to confront their t...
Grub Street Irregular
by Jeremy Lewis; HarperCollins 352pp; £20"Now in his mid-sixties, Jeremy Lewis has drifted through the literary world for 40 years," said Philip French in the Observer - working for&he...
Fishing in Utopia
by Andrew Brown; Granta 352pp; £16.99 "Sweden, when Andrew Brown arrived there in the 1970s, was as near as any country has come to a socialist paradise," said John…...
The Great Western Beach
by Emma Smith; Bloomsbury 384pp; £14.99"It has been said that you only ever meet the world once: in childhood," said Juliet Nicholson in the Daily Telegraph. "In Emma Smith's...
Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter
by Jenni Murray; Bantam 336pp; £14.99In 20 years as the host of Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Jenni Murray has established herself as "the nation's matriarch", said Katy Guest...
Towards Another Summer
by Janet Frame; Virago 224pp; £12.99The great New Zealand writer Janet Frame - best known for her memoirs, including An Angel at My Table, which was made into a…...