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A joy for life: the gaudy, brilliant world of Damon Runyon
Runyon, my father and me
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The writer's bookshelf: Lauren Johnson
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Hosannas and hatchet jobs
The how and why of the reviews I write: pitching for commissions, the process of reading and writing, and the rules I try to stick to along the way
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Going, going, gone… #4
Ten of my favourite works at this week's Old Masters and other auctions at Christie's, Bonham's and Sotheby's in London
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June 2025

The writer's bookshelf: Sian Norris
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Fledgling joys: a week in the country
The unlooked-for delights and wisdoms of bird-watching in the Normandy bocage
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Domingos Sequeira and his greenish friends
Why I fell in love with a painting in Lisbon's National Museum of Ancient Art
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Review: The Secrets of the Thames at London Museum Docklands
A delightful exhibition exploring the river's mudlarks and the treasures they find
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The writer's bookshelf: Matthew Parker
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Bad choices and dangerous friends: the fugitive promise of George Gascoigne
Why one of Elizabethan England's great literary innovators died a broken man
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Review: Sceptred Isle by Helen Carr
A powerful new account of English history in the tumultuous fourteenth century
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The writer's bookshelf: Rishi Dastidar
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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