Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.