Robert Winder
Articles by Robert Winder
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Hall of mirrors
- 24 July 2000
Celia's Secret: an investigation Michael Frayn and David Burke Faber & Faber, 128pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571205305
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A dying game. Why would a cricketer commit suicide? Robert Winder reads the lives of three great former players and is bewildered by their self-absorption and petty obsessions
- 19 June 2000
Mystery Spinner: the story of Jack Iverson Gideon Haigh Aurum Press, 376pp, £18.99 ISBN 1854107143 Boycs: the true story Leo McKinstry Partridge, 350pp, £16.99 Sir Vivian: the definitive autobiography Viv Richards Michael Joseph, 300pp, £16.99
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A road to nowhere. Immigrants have always been made to feel that they don't belong. Robert Winder journeys through the legacy of the slave trade and the racial confusion it has left behind
- 29 May 2000
The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips Faber & Faber, 352pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571196209
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Letters, pray. Is the alphabet the central intellectual advance in human history? Robert Winder takes a look at a new study of the 26 components of our vocabulary and their rich resonances
- 01 May 2000
The Alphabet Richard A Firmage Bloomsbury, 308pp, £14.99 ISBN 0747547572
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Flights of fancy
- 10 April 2000
Nabokov's Butterflies Vladimir Nabokov Penguin, 752pp, £25 ISBN 0807085405
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The longest journey. Post-imperial writing is suffused by a sense of exile and loss. But what the authors have most in common is the pursuit of individual freedom, argues Robert Winder
- 13 March 2000
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Voices of the Crossing Ferdinand Dennis and Naseem Khan Serpent's Tail, 179pp, £11 ISBN 1852425830
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Family century - Martin, by Evelyn, out of Saul
- 29 November 1999
Imagine a visit by Waugh to the Bellow stud. Whom do they beget? Amis fils, of course. Robert Windertraces the literary bloodlines of some of the century's best-known writers
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Voices from the past. If any writer was going to breathe a last gasp into the epistolary tradition it was likely to be V S Naipaul. Robert Winder reads the letters of a cold and clear-eyed prophet
- 01 November 1999
Letters Between a Father and Son V S Naipaul Little, Brown, 333pp, £18.99 ISBN 0316639885
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A perfect music. The life of Mozart was a triumph of genius over precocity. Robert Winder salutes the marvellous boy who became a brilliant man
- 18 October 1999
Mozart Peter Gay Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 150pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297643460
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Boys' own hero. C B Fry had everything: sporting brilliance, good looks, contacts and literary flair. So why is he remembered as a glorious failure?
- 02 August 1999
C B Fry: An English Hero Iain Wilton Richard Cohen Books, 512pp, £25
