Book launch

Parties

In pictures: The Spectator’s book party with Rachel Cockerell

The night started off strong with cocktails and conversation with Speccie subscribers

The Spectator

Jeremy Clarke, in my dreams

The book launch passed in a blur. I hardly spoke to anyone

Catriona Olding

Carson McCullers’s lonely passion

Mary Dearborn’s Carson McCullers: A Life is well-written, hefty, responsible and absorbing

Scott Bradfield

Sardonic and elegant: Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s Ghost Pains

The stories are world-hoppers, set in Italy, America, Siberia, Krakow and Berlin

Lee Langley

Book Review

Princess Gulbadan was the flower of the Mughal court

Thanks to Ruby Lal’s Vagabond Princess, we now know her account of the times to be of immense value

Anthony Sattin