Pets in the Blitz
War Horse, by way of book and play and film, has brought the role of horses in war into the…
An apologia for adultery
What to make of this unexpectedly startling novel? Though you may be lured into a false sense of familiarity by…
My mother, my self
To tell this story of his search for a mother lost to mystery in early infancy, its author uses the…
Scarred by the past
In Indonesia in 1965–6 half a million communists and supposed communist sympathisers were murdered by a range of civilian and…
Narrative drive
Michael Holroyd describes this tiny, charmingly pointless publication (On Wheels, Chatto, £9.99) not as a book but as an example…
