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Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize