THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME
BY DONALD RAY POLLOCK
Harvill Secker, £12.99
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DONALD Ray Pollock was born in Knockemstiff, a ghost town in Ohio. Growing up and leaving high school early, Pollock was a truck driver and laborer...
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Monday 9th January 2012, 2:47am
Monday 9th January 2012, 2:45am
HELPS SOLVE YOUR WORK-LIFE PROBLEMS
DEAR VEXED: I met a guy at a Christmas party and we’ve seen each other a few times. I really like him but he’s playing it cool. Now I can’t stop thinking about him. When I get like this, I really...
Monday 9th January 2012, 2:41am
FALLING SIDEWAYS
BY THOMAS E KENNEDY
Bloomsbury, £17.99
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A NATIVE of Queens, New York, Kennedy adopted Copenhagen nearly 30 years ago when he was offered a job for the Danish Medical Association, which he kept for 28...
Thursday 3rd November 2011, 12:09am
THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY
BY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Heinemann , £17.99
THE arcane title of this book should serve as a fair warning to the reader familiar with Atomised, Platform and other cult Houellebecq novels. While those books...
Thursday 3rd November 2011, 12:09am
The Hawksmoor empire has opened their third and beefiest establishment in Guildhall and its separate 50-seater bar helps reinforce the group’s penchant for cocktails as well as steak.
Pall Mall just got a bit posher with the addition of...
Thursday 3rd November 2011, 12:09am
My Kind of Cooking
Mark Sargeant
Published by Quercus
£20
Odd bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal
Jennifer McLagan
Published by Jacqui Small
£20
Mark Sargeant was a Gordon Ramsay protégé and...
Wednesday 5th October 2011, 11:04pm
-Made in Sicily: Food and Stories
By Giorgio Locatelli, £30
-Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland
By Beata Zatorska and Simon Target, £25
FOOD writing has evolved into the porn of the book world –...
Wednesday 5th October 2011, 11:04pm
MISHA Glenny is no stranger to investigating violent individuals. As a correspondent for the Guardian and BBC he covered corrupt politicians and megalomaniac generals in Yugoslavia. Following this, Glenny turned his sights on international crime...
Wednesday 5th October 2011, 11:03pm
BAKINGS AND PUDDINGS
By Henry Dimbleby and Claire Ptak
The third cookbook from Leon, with a naughty but healthy twist. Three quarters of the recipes are sugar, gluten, wheat or dairy free. Score.
THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY...
Wednesday 21st September 2011, 11:05pm
THE LADY OF THE RIVERS
BY PHILLIPPA GREGORY
Simon & Schuster, £7.99
PHILIPPA Gregory’s success has been built upon portraying women that have remained on history’s periphery – notably Mary, sister of Anne Boleyn in 2002’s...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
