Last Evenings on Earth Simon Schuster and the constant threat of

and the constant threat of death or capture

The way Neanderthals lived and the reasons why they disappeared 50

Managers accept the world as it is

Anne Boleyn was assigned a house in the Strand

Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life

Last Evenings on Earth Simon Schuster and the constant threat of"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes,