"It's his happiness, I thought, slightly hysterical by now. Therefore he should find it on his own. Has he looked everywhere? I almost laughed; a small titter escaped my lips. From this brittle emotion I stepped off, as if from an unseen kerb, into a ...
I am a secular, liberal, identifying British Jew. My parents would have taken great pleasure if my acting talents had landed me a starring role in the primary school nativity play; on Christmas Day, we gather at home eating smoked salmon bagels and ...
If characters in contemporary literature should have learnt anything by now, it's that it seems increasingly ill-advised for groups of friends recently graduated from exclusive universities to go on any sort of mini-break together. Whether up a ...
'Men are so beaten into submission these days,' says Jilly Cooper. 'They're so wet and worried and confused that one simply has to reach into romance novels to find a proper hero.' A Mills & Boon paperback is sold in a UK bookshop on average every 6.6 ...
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