Tag: New York

  • My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout

    Hardback, Penguin Viking, £12.99, out now Lucy is in hospital in New York, separated from her husband and young children while her illness rumbles on.  Her mother, who she has not seen for many years, comes to visit her, staying by her bedside for several days.  The reasons for the physical and emotional distance in…

  • All That Is: James Salter

    Collected Stories also available – £18.99 hardback After a 34-year break from the novel form, 88 year-old former US fighter pilot/Hollywood screenwriter/living legend James Salter made a triumphant return this year with All That Is. Much touted by the press here as “the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of,” Salter’s ‘final’ book is a…