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1. ON PURPOSE: Ten lessons on the meaning of life

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life (Nonfiction work) -- Hutchinson, Ben, Books -- Book reviews
Abstract

ON PURPOSE Ten lessons on the meaning of life BEN HUTCHINSON 208pp. Fourth Estate. Paperback, 9.99 [pounds sterling]. Ben Hutchinson has "long believed in the edifying powers of 'great writing'" [...]

Published
2024

5. Writers' earnings

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Literature/writing
Abstract

Sir,--In a discussion of 'the All Party Parliamentary Writers Group's 'inquiry into authors' earnings' (NB. June 28) which 'have fallen by 42 per cent in real terms since 2005', J.C. [...]

Published
2019

6. A wee dram of friendship

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Something Like Breathing (Novel) -- Readman, Angela, Literature/writing
Abstract

Angela Readman SOMETHING LIKE BREATHING 256pp. And Other Stories. 10 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 911508 30 4 Sylvie Tyler likes stolen kisses. Stuck on a small Scottish island, with only [...]

Published
2019

7. Are we nearly there yet? Karl Ove Knausgaard's infantilizing approach

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Spring (Knausgaard, Karl Ove) (Novel) -- Knausgaard, Karl Ove -- Burkey, Ingvild, Summer (Knausgaard, Karl Ove) (Novel) -- Knausgaard, Karl Ove -- Burkey, Ingvild, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Karl Ove Knausgaard SPRING 192pp.978 1 910701 67 6 SUMMER 416pp.978 1 910701 69 0 Translated by Ingvild Burkey Harvill Seeker. Both 16.99 [pounds sterling] Karl Ove Knausgaard often speaks [...]

Published
2018

8. Love and uglier feelings: Iris Murdoch's life in letters, from gifted schoolgirl to 'aggravatingly effortless' novelist and passionate bohemian

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 (Nonfiction work) -- Horner, Avril -- Rowe, Anne, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, editors LIVING ON PAPER Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 688pp. Chatto and Windus. 25 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 7011 8705 7 In the summer of [...]

Published
2015

11. Driven to distraction

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write (Book) -- Book reviews, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2006

12. None but the fair

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
On Beauty (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2005

16. Drawing 'perhaps'

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words After 'John Caldigate' (Novel) -- Grennan, Simon, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Simon Grennan DISPOSSESSION A novel of few words after 'John Caldigate' by Anthony Trollope 104pp. Cape. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 224 10220 9 In 1977, Mike Batt, known for [...]

Published
2016

17. Measured out in spoons

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Some Luck (Novel) -- Smiley, Jane -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Jane Smiley SOME LUCK 416pp. Mantle. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 4472 7559 6 US: Knopf. $26.95. 978 0 307 70031 3 In 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel [...]

Published
2015

18. The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Published
2005

19. Having run the numbers

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Dog (O'Neill, Joseph) (Novel) -- O'Neill, Joseph -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Joseph O'Neill THE DOG 256pp. Fourth Estate. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 00 727574 8 US: Pantheon. $25.95. 978 0 307 37823 3 The word 'dog', writes William Empson, is [...]

Published
2014

21. Cuckoo's egg

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Ravens (Bannerhed, Tomas) (Novel) -- Bannerhed, Tomas -- Death, Sarah, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Tomas Bannerhed THE RAVENS Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death 416pp. Clerkenwell Press. Paperback, 9.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84668 899 7 Seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Klas, [...]

Published
2014

22. A bluffer's guide

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (Book) -- Bayard, Pierre, Books -- Book reviews
Abstract

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Pierre Bayard Granta Books, 192pp, £12 Despite Victoria Beckham's pioneering example (she famously told the Spanish magazine Chic that she'd never read […]

Published
2008

23. Bad vibrations

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Tampa (Novel) -- Nutting, Alissa, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Alissa Nutting TAMPA 272pp. Faber. Paperback, 12.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 571 30334 2 Alissa Nutting is familiar with hype. Her debut novel, billed as 'the most controversial book of [...]

Published
2013

24. Existential breaths

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
All the Birds, Singing (Novel) -- Wyld, Evie -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Evie Wyld ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING 240pp. Cape. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 224 09668 3 Evie Wyld's second novel opens with the image of a dead sheep, 'mangled and [...]

Published
2013

25. News from a lost world

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Wintering (Novel) -- Book reviews, Wintering (Book) -- Johns, Derek, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Wintering Derek Johns Portobello Books, 199pp, £7.99 Following the fate of the Palmer family, Derek Johns's accomplished debut begins at the end of an Indian summer. Jim and Margaret have [...]

Published
2007

26. Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich, editors: REDISCOVERING MARGIAD EVANS: Marginality, gender, illness

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Marginality, Gender and Illness (Nonfiction work) -- Bohata, Kirsti -- Gramich, Katie, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich, editors REDISCOVERING MARGIAD EVANS Marginality, gender, illness 288pp. University of Wales Press. Paperback, 24.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 7083 2560 5 Margiad Evans has, for [...]

Published
2013

27. Under the microscope

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Arlington Park (Novel) -- Book reviews, Arlington Park (Book) -- Cusk, Rachel, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Arlington Park Rachel Cusk Faber & Faber, 256pp, £14.99 One wet morning in Arlington Park, Juliet Randall, the heroine of Rachel Cusk's latest novel, wakes up with a bug. She [...]

Published
2006

28. The reluctant traveller

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
On Trying to Keep Still (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
Abstract

On Trying to Keep Still Jenny Diski Little, Brown, 307pp, [pounds sterling]15.99 Jenny Diski isn't a natural travel writer. The issue is not so much the writing as the travelling. […]

Published
2006

29. Lost objects

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
In the Dark Room: A Journey in Memory (Book) -- Dillon, Brian, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

In the Dark Room: a journey in memory Brian Dillon Penguin Ireland, 246pp, £17.99 'Misfortune,' Brian Dillon writes, 'finds new and inventive forms.' In In the Dark Room, the literary [...]

Published
2006

30. Home truths

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Mother, Missing (Book) -- Oates, Joyce Carol, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Mother, Missing Joyce Carol Oates Fourth Estate, 434pp, £17.99 Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel has two titles. Readers in the UK will find themselves opening Mother, Missing; the US edition [...]

Published
2005

31. From Russia with love of a kind

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories (Critical work) -- Oatley, Keith, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Keith Oatley THE PASSIONATE MUSE Exploring emotion in stories 272pp. Oxford University Press. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 19 976763 2 Near the beginning of The Passionate Muse, liis exploration [...]

Published
2012

33. PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
General interest
Abstract

The Cleft by Doris Lessing HarperPerennial, pounds 7.99 Narrated by an imaginary Roman historian, Doris Lessing's myth of origins begins with the 'Clefts'', a species with dominion over the earth. [...]

Published
2007

34. 'Mounds of flesh, organs and fluids'

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
General interest
Abstract

The Past by Alan Pauls, tr by Nick Caistor 528pp, Harvill Secker, pounds 17.99 T pounds 15.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 We first meet the hero of [...]

Published
2007

35. IN BRIEF Diaspora

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
General interest
Abstract

Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu 240pp, Jonathan Cape, pounds 12.99 (pbk) Having fled from Ethiopia as a child, Sepha Stephanos now owns a run-down general store in Washington [...]

Published
2007

36. Little wonder

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? (Critical work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2010

37. Maternal

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Hyperdream (Fictional work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2009

38. Lost graces

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
On Eloquence (Critical work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2008

39. Safety first

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
How Fiction Works (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2008

41. Saul's comfort break

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
A Man About a Dog: Euphemisms and Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2007

42. Dead of winter

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Thirteenth Tale (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2006

44. Affairs of the heart

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
All for Love (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2005

45. A bun in the oven

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2004

46. Girl, willing to travel

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Lucky Girls (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2004

47. White trash, dark deeds

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Tattooed Girl (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2004

48. Arboreal encounters

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
The Whole Story and Other Stories (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
2003

49. Tale of the century

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (Book) -- Gay, Peter, Books -- Book reviews
Abstract

Modernism: the Lure of Heresy--From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond Peter Gay Heinemann, 640pp, £20 Early in his book, Peter Gay offers an account of the work of James Ensor, […]

Published
2007

50. Awkward beauty

Author

Ratcliffe, Sophie

Subjects
A Treatise of Civil Power (Book) -- Hill, Geoffrey, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

A Treatise of Civil Power Geoffrey Hill Penguin Books, 64pp, £9.99 Near the end of his latest collection, Geoffrey Hill seems to get entangled: Shredded--my kite--in the myriad-snagged crabapple crown, [...]

Published
2007

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