How to Paint a Dead Man Sarah Hall
From Italy in the 1960s to Cumbria thirty years later, Sarah Hall's Booker-longlisted fourth novel, told through four narrators, is a fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives. More
New Fiction: State of our Times
In a debut that resonates powerfully with the current climate, Alex Preston's This Bleeding City tells the story of a young man lured by the non-stop parties and unchecked greed of life in the City of London, just as the financial crisis strikes. Carrying on this theme of corporate greed and corruption is Alan Glynn's gripping thriller Winterland, set in the Dublin underworld and out next month. More
New Non-Fiction: Gender Equality?
In The Equality Illusion, women's right campaigner Kat Banyard puts forth an urgent new manifesto that aims to reclaim feminism for a new generation of women. And in The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Frances Stonor Saunders wages her own impassioned campaign to reclaim the dignity of one brave woman, consigned to oblivion by her society. More
Pick of the Paperbacks: Rediscover Ishiguro
In advance of the publication of his stunning short story cycle Nocturnes later this month, rediscover Kazuo Ishiguro's classic novels, Never Let Me Go, Remains of the Day and A Pale View of Hills, in brand new paperback editions. More
In Music, Stage and Screen: Writing & Music
Issue 02 of Loops, the bi-annual journal of music writing, published in collaboration with legendary independent label Domino, is out now. Alongside a lead article by Paul Morley on Michael Jackson, it hosts an essay on 1973 by legendary rock writer Nick Kent, whose memoir Apathy for the Devil is also out this month. More
Music, Stage and Screen: Faber Screenplay Noms
Two Faber screenplays have found favour in the nominations for this year's Academy Awards. Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds will be fighting it out in the Best Original Screenplay category in March. More