When Adam Sisman approached David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré (pictured), as his possible biographer in 2010, Le Carré cited my messy private life as a reason for being nervous.
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
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