From Marilynne Robinson to Ross King: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson and England: Seven Myths that Changed a Country by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears.
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Tom Gatti
Tom Gatti is executive editor, culture, books, ideas and print of the New Statesman.
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