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Hilary Spurling

Three remarkable sisters at the heart of 20th-century Chinese politics

Hilary Spurling 12 October 2019 9:00 am

Hilary Spurling tells the tale of three remarkable siblings and their influence on politics in 20th-century China

Rao Pingru and his siblings make a lion lantern with their mother

Enduring life under Chairman Mao

Hilary Spurling 5 May 2018 9:00 am

Hilary Spurling is enchanted by depictions of simple family pleasures throughout years of famine and persecution

Claire Tomalin in 2007

On the front line of feminism: Claire Tomalin’s memoir reviewed

Hilary Spurling 16 September 2017 9:00 am

As literary editor of the Sunday Times in the early 1980s, when the rest of the editorial staff routinely papered…

Small comfort: a mother, whose only son was killed in a car accident at the age of 23, holds a picture of him as a child. Many such bereaved parents, unable to conceive again and struggling to support themselves in later life, say they have nothing left to live for

China’s brutal one-child policy will be catastrophic for us all

Hilary Spurling 16 January 2016 9:00 am

China’s brutal one-child policy was not only inhuman; it will profoundly damage the rest of the world, says Hilary Spurling

The long shadow over China’s only children

Hilary Spurling 13 June 2015 9:00 am

This book starts with a Chinese boy so privileged and pampered that, at 21, he can’t open his own suitcase,…

John Aubrey and his circle: those magnificent men and their flying machines

Hilary Spurling 14 March 2015 9:00 am

John Aubrey investigated everything from the workings of the brain, the causation of winds and the origins of Stonehenge to…

Always a better novelist than her husband: Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1949

Literature's least attractive power couple

Hilary Spurling 20 September 2014 9:00 am

This book charts the rise and fall of one of the strangest power couples of modern times. The senior partner…

An enchanted forest of family trees

Hilary Spurling 6 March 2004 12:00 am

Michael Holroyd describes the first copy of his last book of memoirs plopping through the letterbox, the kind of moment…

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