Alice Austen Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp368 Set in Brussels as the Nazis invade Belgium, Austen’s debut novel focuses on the inhabitants of a large apartment building. There’s a Jewish art dealer and his family, an art student and her father, an elderly gossip and a talented seamstress. As the war progresses, each must decide who they can trust. Polyphonic in structure, the distinctiveness of each narrative voice is testament to Austen’s skill and the resulting novel is both intimate and ambitious, lyrical and moving. Henry Gee Picador, £18.99, pp288 In his latest highly engaging work of popular science, Gee explores whether...
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