The first volume in a trilogy that promises to be the definitive biography of The Beatles. Meticulously researched, it ...

Banville (The Book of Evidence; Athena; Ghosts) has always been a highly stylish writer whose prose is almost tactile in its loving delineation of lights and weathers.

You might have meant a ladies’ magazine which has a party line as rigid and sterile as that of, say, either the Communist or ...