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At Last, By Edward St Aubyn
Sunday, 1 May 2011
The fifth and final part of Patrick's story is set on the day of his mother's cremation and, as ever, is a beguiling blend of wit, intellect and compassion
Breakfast in Nudie Suits: Out of Tune and on The Run with Gram Parsons, By Ian Dunlop
Sunday, 1 May 2011
No country (or western) for old men
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape From a Hidden World, By Mitchell Zuckoff
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Meat on the bones of a blockbuster
Before I Go to Sleep, By S J Watson
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Dear diary: Is that a stranger in my bed, or have I lost my memory (again!)?
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, By William D Cohan
Sunday, 1 May 2011
The bank that likes to say 'Yes' – to both sides
The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (ed Harriet Tarlo)
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Odes to nature, but with a cutting edge
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan, By John Burke and Simon Norfolk
Sunday, 1 May 2011
John Burke's photographs of the Second Afghan War of 1878-1880 were among the first ever taken in Afghanistan.
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (ed David Shields & Bradford Morrow)
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Moving essays give a voice to death
Our Tragic Universe, By Scarlett Thomas
Sunday, 1 May 2011
The unbearable lightness of a 'storyless story'
Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, By Richard Layard
Sunday, 1 May 2011
A simple answer to the trickiest of questions
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