Rich cream from Jersey

Menaced by Mussolini

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When the foreigner’s Great British fantasy withers

Review: Hearts and Minds

Capital punishment

Review: A Designated Man

Fabulous fable puts hope in pluralism

The day my daughter went mad

The story of Sally Greenberg’s mental illness has become a surprise bestseller.

The ‘Yiddish’ son of a priest and a nun

Debut novelist Peter Manseau tells us how his profession — and parentage — made him write

Review: Ticks And Crosses

Glittering gobbets of a cultural wizard

Extra curricular secrets

Review: A Treaty Of Love

Review: The Believers

How faith fills the void when ideology implodes

Review: The Act Of Love

Howard Jacobson provocatively probes sexual jealousy.

Review: Touching Distance

Review: Chasing Harry Winston

Review: City Of Thieves

Review: All The Sad Young Literary Men