This joyous book takes readers on a literary adventure across 200 years of fiction, from Defoe to Zadie Smith
In his opening paragraph, Philip Hensher declares that a novel not only “tells a good stor…
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Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe ⊖
This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity
It’s hard to think of many superfici…
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