Review: The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino Italo Calvino's brilliant, ludic stories show a writer far ahead of his time, says Ursula K Le Guin
On the home front
As more of us are spending our summer holidays in the UK, we asked writers to recall the book that for them best captures somewhere special on our shores
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Review: An Edible History of Humanity | Famine | Pie | Spices Tom Jaine considers the latest batch of food books
