This week’s round‑up ranges from recently read and reviewed books to standout literary writing across the blogosphere, alongside anniversaries of note (among them World Listening Day and the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray). It also returns to earlier posts deserving another look and draws together a set of intriguing book‑related features from around the Internet.
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, pause for a couple of podcasts and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a reimagining of the most famous conflict in literature – the legendary Trojan War.