Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain – review
By Linda Burgess in Books
Issue 3777 29th Sep 2012
Rose Tremain’s Merivel is much the better character 20 years on from Restoration.
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett review
By Linda Burgess in Books
Issue 3710 18th Jun 2011
Alan Bennett turns voyeur.
Full house
By Linda Burgess in Books
Issue 3680 20th Nov 2010
A frenetic bustle of characters overpopulate Fay Weldon's Kehua!
Father figure
By Linda Burgess in Books
Issue 3589 21st Feb 2009
Columnist Alan Coren packed a Punch.
The afterlife of Paula
By Linda Burgess in Books
Issue 3545 19th Apr 2008
In this second volume of memoir, Isabel Allende is still talking incessantly to her dead daughter.