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Mineke Schipper draws on a lifetime’s study of stories and proverbs across the world to chart the ways in which ideas about ...

In Thrall was first published in 1982, when its author, Jane DeLynn was in her mid-thirties, but it is set in 1960s New York, ...

After retiring as co-editorial director of Publisher’s Weekly in 2014, Michael Coffey read almost nothing but books by or ...

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Sir Peter Russell (1913–2006) was King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1981. He was also Director of Portuguese Studies, and the author of a ...

“To be Carmanised”, said one of the courtroom victims of George Carman QC, “was a dire experience.” Carman (1929–2001) was the most famous barrister of the late twentieth century – the man who got ...