Incidentally...
Stranger than fiction
When I first read ‘The Mirror and the Light’, I was struck by parallels between the Tudor court of Henry VIII and the tensions within SA’s cabinets and corridors
14 August 2022 - 00:00
Prize-winning authors have been on my mind this week, partly because judging has begun for this year’s Sunday Times fiction and nonfiction awards (finalists will be announced at the end of August) and partly because of the attack on Salman Rushdie, who is reported to be on a ventilator after emergency surgery...
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