This week, Alicia Rix charts Henry James's return to an unrecognisable homeland; and David Horspool on a Victorian conman and a contemporary swimmer.
'Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age', by Peter Brooks
'On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays', by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra
'Swimmingly: Adventures in Water', by Vassos Alexander
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