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by Mary Lawson (Chatto £14.99, 304 pp) Anne Tyler is a fan of this Canadian author and you can see why: Lawson is intrigued by the same, deceptively ordinary, small-town lives. This is set in a far-flung community in the north of Canada during the 1970s, and centres on the relationships between three people: an eight-year-old girl, Clara, whose older sister, Rose, has just run away; Mrs Orchard, her elderly, hospitalised neighbour; and Luke, the man Mrs Orchard loved as a little boy and to whom she has bequeathed her house in her will. Clara, worried sick about her sister, is struggling to n...

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By Steve Donoghue Correspondent F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby” entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2021. The book is already a staple of American life; it has been taught in schools for decades, and Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptations starring handsome actors have been followed, generation after generation, by other Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptations starring other handsome actors. But now, anybody can print and sell their own edition of what is widely considered to be one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century.  Dozens o...