George Monaghan

Amanda Craig's tenth novel, High and Low, is reviewed as an enjoyable attempt to transform Britain’s social and economic turmoil into state-of-the-nation fiction. The novel forms part of Craig’s interconnected “roman fleuve”, linking characters and stories across her previous books, including her 1990 debut Foreign Bodies.

Writer Will Self discusses living with secondary myelofibrosis, a blood cancer, and the risks of stem cell transplantation. His illness informs The Quantity Theory of Morality, a sequel to his 1991 book The Quantity Theory of Insanity in which a fictional version of Self dies from blood cancer. The profile also describes how the disease has curtailed his former habit of walking extensively around London and shaped his daily life.