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Cold Sunset by William Boyd, review – Brilliantly captures the delicious moral ambiguity of the spy novel

4/5 Endless cigarettes, copious drink, and a succession of glamorous hotel rooms and restaurants set the scene for Boyd’s intoxicating world

The Independent UK · Sep 1

Thomas Pynchon’s whodunnit is painfully plotless

I couldn’t read it — and trust me, I tried. There are sentences here that go on for half a page and still go nowhere

Evening Standard · Oct 11, 2025

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Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2023

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The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic"

1958's "A Night to Remember" gives a more measured appraisal of the disaster than James Cameron's clunky offering

Salon · Apr 14, 2022

Titanic on screen – why A Night to Remember is the definitive film on the ship

It has been 110 years since the sinking of the Titanic. Over 1,500 passengers and crew perished in one of the deadliest maritime disasters during peacetime. The story of the ship and its passengers has long since taken on mythic proportions and has been committed to film many times. James…

The Conversation · Apr 13, 2022

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