The New Review
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We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds: The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain by Duncan Campbell – reviewThe Guardian’s former crime correspondent reveals the often corrupt relationship between journalists and the police in this thoughtful exposé of his trade
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The Gustav Sonata review – the wrong trait at the wrong timeRose Tremain’s masterful novel, set in Switzerland during the second world war, illuminates the tiny flaws of temperament that can lead to tragedy
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Louise Doughty: ‘I don’t think I write thrillers – but other people seem to’The author of Apple Tree Yard on the Indonesian roots of her new novel Black Water – and why she’s glad to see the back of ‘chicklit’
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Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’Margo Jefferson discusses Negroland, her acclaimed memoir of growing up in an emerging postwar elite in black American society
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‘In Negroland we thought of ourselves as the Third Race’An extract from Negroland, Margo Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in postwar America’s emerging black elite
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