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Don Paterson & Declan Ryan: Toy Fights
In Toy Fights poet Don Paterson recounts his childhood in working-class Dundee. This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophr…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ian Patterson & Keston Sutherland: Shell Vestige Disputed
Ian Patterson, in both poetry and prose, revels in language, its possibilities, absurdities and contradictions. He joined fellow poet Keston Sutherla…
3 years ago
Blake Morrison & Cathy Rentzenbrink: Two Sisters
30 years after he reinvented the family memoir with And When Did You Last See Your Father? poet, critic and novelist Blake Morrison returns to the su…
3 years ago
Sophie Mackintosh & Rebecca Watson: Cursed Bread
Based on the true story of an unsolved mystery, Sophie Mackintosh’s new novel, Cursed Bread (Hamish Hamilton), centres on a small village community u…
3 years ago
Brian Dillon & Jennifer Higgie: Affinities
In Affinities, a series of linked essays, Brian Dillon investigates what it might mean for a thing to be like something else, and what it might mean …
3 years ago
Clare Bucknell & Rosemary Hill: The Treasuries
Fellow of All Souls, Oxford and regular LRB contributor Clare Bucknell argues in The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture…
3 years ago
Tom Crewe & Paul Mendez: The New Life
In one of the most eagerly anticipated debuts of 2023, LRB editor Tom Crewe presents a fictionalised account of the lives and loves of John Addington…
3 years, 1 month ago
Michael Bracewell & Gwendoline Riley: Unfinished Business
Novelist and essayist Michael Bracewell reads from and talks about his latest novel Unfinished Business. An apparently ordinary, suburban office life…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ha-Joon Chang & Daniel Chandler: Edible Economics
According to his excellent website, Ha-Joon Chang doesn’t do extreme sports, is not a hi-tech buff nor a secret expert on 18th-century maps, and he d…
3 years, 1 month ago
Colin Grant & Michael Rosen: I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be
In I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be (Cape) Colin Grant, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, director of WritersMosaic and author of Homecomin…
3 years, 1 month ago