This is music about how war betrays our honour, and redeems what is human in us, offering a short peace. Recommended by Vayu Naidu SUITE FRANÇAISE Written by Irène Némirovsky Tr
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty (Faber, 2013) broke new ground in terms of the DNA of female protagonists in fiction. Calling herself Y, Yvonne Carmichael is at the top of the ge
A road forks – one brother becomes a libertine, the other a micro-biologist traveller. Houellebecq explodes our complacency and shapes the mitochondria of the contemporar
It takes a poet who lives amidst our daily clutter to see the near as something distant. With this vision, he hones his provocative craft, picking with bird-beak precision until he
