![]() Translated from the original French, this is a female manifesto for a writer's life. Aged 20, she moved to Budapest for a year where she could, "just read and write all day for months, with no interruptions". French author Julia Kerninon is the bibliophile many writers should aspire to be she writes exactingly of a childhood imbued with literature and an adolescence spent mentored by poets in Paris. Julia Kerninon translated by Ruth Driver Les Fugitives, £8.99 This 60-page slip of a book holds more inspiration than its page count would suggest. Don't just listen to him but decide for yourselves, he tells us – good advice as there isn't really much worth listening to. He portrays himself as a staunch defender of fact but asserting that the Nazis were socialists somewhat undermines that stance, as do his "climate scepticism" and his belief that the US cannot be imperialist because the desire to break away from an empire led to its founding. ![]() ![]() Seeking to offer disillusioned left-wing readers "classically liberal principles that stand the test of time", he is, at best, vague about what they are. He castigates the left for its intolerance but, curiously, quotes no left-wing thinkers of substance. Dave Rubin Constable, £18.99 This is Dave Rubin's story of why he left the left and why the reader should too, offering a 10-step guide to doing so. ![]()
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