Lucy Caldwell’s new novel is set during the Belfast Blitz: four German airstrikes in April and May 1941. The first, known as the Dockside Raid, saw strategic targets hit with few…
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After debating which gesture, virus oblige, is meant to replace the handshake (an elbow-bump? a Vulcan salute?), I sit down with Sebastian Barry to discuss his new book A Thousand Moons.…
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What better day to parse the love life of Henry VIII with Hilary Mantel than St Valentine’s – at its origin, a celebration of courtly love? As Storm Dennis howled…
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Can fiction be flexible with historical facts?
In commercial fiction, it’s not sex but schmaltz that sells. “I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart,”…