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Ruth Scurr In Ways of Life (Jonathan Cape, £30), Laura Freeman channels the spirit of the art critic and collector Jim Ede. She traces the origins of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge – not a museum, nor art gallery, more a cabinet of curiosities – through Ede’s own life, his work for the Tate, the other
England's Deborah Rogers Foundation this time honors a published poet who's producing his first novel, 'The Dead Don't Bleed.'
Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends
The copyright pages most people flip past may 'represent both a history of the book and of our industry.' Richard Charkin reads them first.
I had crunched the gears, wobbling the tiny body of this pre-war Austin Ruby. I was sure that my own failures, and not the car, were responsible for this strange shift of direction.