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Review by Neil Mackay “WORDS, words, words, they’re all we have to go on,” Tom Stoppard wrote – half in melancholy, half in delight – in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Language, Stoppard tells us in his tragicomic take on the lives of two minor characters in Hamlet, is what defines us poor human creatures – it’s all that separates us from the beasts. Jon McGregor must have been listening. His new novel, Lean Fall Stand, may ostensibly tell of a terrible accident that befalls a team of Antarctic explorers and its cruel aftermath, but in truth this taut, ele...

Jon McGregor's Lean Fall Stand is a thrilling Antarctic adventure – with a twist 4/5 The novelist follows his acclaimed Reservoir 13 with a tense novel about a doomed polar expedition, in which language itself breaks down Jon McGregor has followed Reservoir 13 with an icy thriller  Credit: DieterMeyrl Jon McGregor’s new novel, his first since the Costa Prize-winning Reservoir 13, opens as excitingly as any work of fiction I’ve recently read. There are three men at a research station in the Antarctic, out on the ice, not far from base. The weather is sharp and clear. One walks away from...

Fourth Estate; 288 pages; £14.99. To be published in America in September by Catapult; $26 I N “RESERVOIR 13”, a novel by Jon McGregor published in 2017, a teenage girl disappears while on a winter break with her family in the Peak District, a region in the north of England. As the case goes unsolved, and is gradually forgotten, the book changes focus and looks at the people directly and indirectly affected by the tragedy. Mr McGregor takes a similar approach in his new novel, “Lean Fall Stand”. The breathtaking opening chapters describe a research expedition which goes horribly and ...

Mel Giedroyc is taking part in the Cambridge Literary Festival. - Credit: Laurie Fletcher An innovative literary festival has announced its lockdown line-up for its spring return next month. A year ago, Cambridge Literary Festival had to close its doors to live events due to the coronavirus pandemic. Last April it delivered a scaled down online alternative, The Listening Festival, and in November a full-scale virtual event. With a new CLF website and two festivals delivered, organisers are ready to do it again from April 21 to April 25, with the line-up featuring award-winning authors,...

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