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Jonathan Coe's new novel is set at the World Fair in 1958 and he's captured the idealistic atmosphere where my father displayed an exhibit for the UK

While it gives more credence to the naysayers than it should, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt excellently marshalls the evidence over the authorship of the bard's plays

In her latest collection of essays, the New Yorker staff writer Janet Malcolm is at her empathetic, clever, shining best

The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza has been hailed as the Great Italian Novel. If this is the greatest, then how dull must the rest be?

James Salter is seeing something of a renaissance of late. His elegantly written Collected Stories confirms him as a writer of moving and humane prose

Big Brother is Lionel Shriver at her cold-eyed best; a nourishing helping of fearless, humane and sober prose

At times in Levels of Life, Julian Barnes at his dizzying best—it is writing from his informed, proud and devoted heart

Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy