The novel resolutely crushes Jo into the shape of a woman, and then a wife and mother, taking away her passion for writing in the process, writes Victoria White

Colum McCann has pushed the boundaries out with his new book Transatlantic. He tells Sue Leonard how he approached writing it and his earlier books

But for Rory McIlroy’s solo march to his second major at Kiawah Island, golf’s final grand event of the season, the USPGA, might have been shunted into the sidings by the medals and records, inspiration and heartache of the London Olympics.

It’s the Snow White story, of course, but through a glass darkly.