Biography books
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The writer’s affable misanthropy and self-deprecation are on display in a new set of reflections on life and death
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Three different viewpoints on the UK’s system of incarceration – by Jacob Dunne, Angela Kirwin and Andy West – examine the human cost of our investment in punishment rather than rehabilitation
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A brilliantly unjaded exploration of the power of songs to intoxicate, enthuse and reassure
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review – the writer who ate himself