The glory and grime of boxing
In The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing, Donald McRae deftly captures the sport’s ugliness and exhilaration.
By Francisco Garcia
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A Northumbrian pilgrimage
A poet’s journey through the north-east reveals our universal desire to belong to a place we call home.
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The Europeans who built Britain
In architecture, art, publishing and philosophy, continental émigrés fleeing fascism transformed our culture.
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Picasso’s mistreated muses
It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…
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The murder that shocked the Edwardians
The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
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In her debut novel, Roisin Lanigan’s caustic social commentary of renting in London is undercut by supernatural horror.
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Norman Lewis’s secret 20th century
In wartime Naples or Castro’s Cuba, the inconspicuous writer-traveller was a vivid chronicler of unseen worlds.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s lessons in humanity
Theft, the Nobel Prize winner’s new novel, is full of wisdom and free of judgement.
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