Memoirs
Tales from the hen house
Their jostling energy and distinct personalities bring joy not only to their owners but increasingly to children in therapy and lonely pensioners in care homes
Bonds and boundaries
Elizabeth Day recognises that real friends need nurturing, and spreading yourself too thinly doesn’t help anyone
The lure of yellow pages
For almost as long as there have been books, there have been books about books — writers just love to…
The places that make us
In the summer of 2019, the journalist Anita Sethi was on a train travelling across northern England when she was…
History endlessly repeated
Perhaps the secret to understanding Russian history lies in its grammar: it lacks a pluperfect tense. In Latin, English and…
Memoirs without memory
James Kelman doubtless remains best known for his 1994 Booker prize win for How Late It Was, How Late and…
Of his time
Great novelists come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing they all share is a status of half-belonging. If…
