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Paul Murray: ‘I just dumped all my sadness into the book’

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Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow at 50

Books age at variable rates. Some, indexed to topicalities with mayfly longevities, are decrepit before they’re published. Others, lively and seductive on first appearance, are dry husks a decade later. More durable works may still feel noble a century hence, if suspended in aspic.

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Cullercoats author's debut novel named among best new crime fiction for May in The Times

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