Claire Allfree
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 24, 2026
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'Hold on to your hats...' the best literary fiction this week (opens the original)
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Female Life on Planet Earth is available now from the Mail Bookshop NOT long after her mother dies, Heti receives a package containing three images of her as a younger woman in Iran. In two photos her mother is in religious dress; in one she is pointing a machine-gun at a group of handcuffed western women; together all three point to a previous past life as a militant during the Iranian Revolution. In an instance, everything Heti thought she knew about her mother – and everything she took for gr
Robert Harris returns to Rome in this week's literary fiction (opens the original)
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Agrippa is available now from the Mail Bookshop The Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was one of the most fearsome and effective generals in the dying days of the Roman Republic. He was also no mean engineer – we have him to thank for the Pantheon. Yet the right-hand man and erstwhile confidante of Octavius Caesar – nephew of Julius and later Rome’s first Emperor, Augustus – has remained a shadow of history, unacknowledged in the official record by Augustus himself. It’s manna for Robert Ha
Is Natalie Portman the star of Rachel Cusk's latest novel? (opens the original)
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Passage is available now from the Mail Bookshop Thubron’s latest novel opens with a scene worthy of Ian McEwan. A woman lies awake on an operating table, talking, while a surgeon examines a tumour in her brain that sits there, glistening, among ‘a turmoil of pink and crimson coils’. After the surgery, known as an awake craniotomy, Kathleen and her oafish husband Robert go on holiday to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, accompanied by Robert’s brother Alan, who has nursed a terrible unrequited lo
Colson Whitehead returns in this week's literary fiction (opens the original)
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Thea is a vet in a small New Zealand town, struggling to combine her job with looking after her two small children while her useless husband Nick drifts about pretending to be busy at work. Then the mountain in whose shadow the family live erupts, cloaking the town in a persistent claggy film of ash. Wallace, the author of four poetry books, draws on found texts in this structurally innovative novella. She allows snapshots of other female lives to interrupt Thea’s internal monologue as she deals
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