An Academic QuestionINTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone a dissatisfied faculty wife becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers to read to a blind esteemed anthropologist in a nursing home Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers research that could both advance his

mysticism is here presented with clarity and depth

2-D Art of Death

Judith Rodin shows how people

re-evaluate people and steal some good ones

Weed and sex are irresistible temptations - and it's messed up that I secretly hand over money to our junkie mom

and a couple -- the author's parents -- attempts to build a geodesic dome

But constant travel

along with hints and tips for making vegan meals in no time at all

Paul Cornell

skulduggery

nearly one hundred

Deliberately unhelpful almost entirely free of useful generalisations and shamelessly frank about the realities of fatherhood from conception to ten years it plunges into the whole sordid business of nappies boredom family excursions to preserved warships madness food toys sex education clothes that don't fit bonding vomit love hitting financial ruin happiness and of course nursery-school fathers' races where Charles Jennings finds himself overtaken by the whole field and a grandfather - but is rescued from humiliation by his own son aged five