by NRB | 17 Nov 2020 | Fiction |
The award-winning author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle returns with a dark and dangerous mystery set on the high seas. The Devil and the Dark Water reminds me a little of the old circular joke: It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to...
by NRB | 12 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction |
Toby Faber delivers a slice of publishing history replete with (now) famous authors. Toby Faber is the grandson of Geoffrey Faber who, in 1929, established the publishing firm Faber & Faber. He tells the story of Faber & Faber mostly through original...
by NRB | 25 Mar 2014 | Fiction |
Hanif Kureishi’s new novel about a would-be biographer and his famous novelist subject charts a process of disillusionment. If a biographer’s role is to ‘show the world what an artist is’ then it is not merely the sublimity of the imagination or the creative process...
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