Books Do Furnish a RoomThe tenth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

and that the only way to honour the dead

And it is a high one - seeing the future is a fate almost too awful to contemplate - for who wants to see the end of their own story

celebrated surgeon and anatomist

mainly because nobody knows how to use it

day-to-day life must go on

The body was still there

as he heads to the battlefields of France

which established Zadie Smith as an outstanding new writer

and interwoven with brilliant retellings of Arthurian legends

leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft

Is falling in love the beginning

She'll learn more in the city's subterranean chambers