Personal stories are a strong focus in this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction longlist, with Yiyun Li’s memoir about the loss of her two teenage sons by suicide and Barbara Demick’s... Read more »
It is an irony that she herself would have revelled in: Barbara Pym, the author who punctured the social strictures of 20th-century Britain, worked as a censor during the second world war.... Read more »