the Somme

Under a green sea

5 August 2023 9:00 am

How, between 1911 and 1917, Owen became the dazzling poet we know and love is the story told in Jane Potter’s new edition of his selected letters

The first industrial war

10 April 2021 9:00 am

This book does not mess about. It tells the story of the fighting on the Western Front between 1914 and…

Looking for treasure island

4 June 2016 9:00 am

It is not easy to avoid clichés when writing about J.M.G. Le Clézio. Born in Nice in 1940, the recipient…