The Music Room
by William Fiennes, Picador, 216pp, £14.99, Week Bookshop £13.49 (incl. p&p) "Three stories are told in the small space of this unusual and beautiful book," said Anne Chisholm in the Sunday Telegraph. "The story of a great house, the story of a family tragedy and the story of the… [continued]
Americans in Paris
by Charles Glass, Harper, 528pp, £20, Week Bookshop £18 (incl. p&p) "If Germany had conquered this country in 1940, what, as an adult at the time, would you have done?" asked Noel Malcolm in the Sunday Telegraph. In our imaginations, I suspect, we all join the resistance and fight… [continued]
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
by Geoff Dyer, Canongate, 304pp, £12.99, Week Bookshop £11.69 (incl. p&p) Geoff Dyer is "a writer's writer", said Tim Teeman in the Times. His "clever, erudite and dashing" books come plastered with praise from the likes of Michael Ondaatje, William Boyd, Alain de Botton and Zadie Smith (who hails… [continued]
The Spirit Level
by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Allen Lane, 320pp, £20, Week Bookshop £18 (incl. p&p). The Spirit Level provides “an intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought”, said Roy Hattersley in the New Statesman. It is well-known that in unequal societies, the poor… [continued]
Adventures on the High Teas
by Stuart Maconie, Ebury, 352pp, £11.99, Week Bookshop £10.79 (incl. p&p). “Going in search of Middle England” has become something of a publishing staple, said Euan Ferguson in the Observer. “You know the sort of thing”: a “treasured” writer or broadcaster – Bill Bryson, Jeremy Paxman –… [continued]
Jane’s Fame
by Claire Harman, Canongate, 384pp, £20 Week Bookshop £18 (incl. p&p). For half a century after Jane Austen’s death aged 41 in 1817, her fame was “no more than a feeble glimmer”, said John Carey in the Sunday Times. As Claire Harman explains in her “rich, incisive” study of… [continued]
House of Cards
by William D Cohan, Allen Lane, 300pp, £25, Week Bookshop £22.50 (incl. p&p). It is often said of this financial crisis that "the people running the banks had no idea of the risks they were taking", said David Smith in the Sunday Times. In the case of Bear… [continued]
Constable in Love
by Martin Gayford, Fig Tree, 384pp, £20, Week Bookshop £18 (incl. p&p). "We know Constable as one of the grand masters of English painting," said Jane Stevenson in the Daily Telegraph. But for much of his life, his contemporaries knew him as the handsome son of a well-to-do… [continued]
Their Finest Hour and a Half
by Lissa Evans, Doubleday, 416pp, £14.99, Week Bookshop £13.49 (incl. p&p). "This is the truest and most enjoyable novel about home-front life I’ve read," said Christopher Fowler in the Independent on Sunday. It's 1940, and Catrin Cole, drafted into the Ministry of Information to give a feminine angle… [continued]
The Lost Child
by Julie Myerson, Bloomsbury, 336pp, £14.99, Week Bookshop £13.49 (incl. p&p).
"There can be few who are not familiar with the saga of the Myersons by now," said Amanda Craig in the Times. The writers Julie and Jonathan Myerson discovered that their 15-year-old son
Jake was smoking skunk,… [continued]
People: Jake Myerson changes his name 
People: Julie Myerson lied to her publisher
People: Julie Myerson book row escalates
People: Julie Myerson's son denies stoner claim
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