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“... with his fellow islanders, to learn how to live in ‘The Town’. The important books here are Laura IngallsWilder’s Little House series. Spufford went to De Smets, South Dakota, the little town on the prairie, where he met Harvey Marx, 91, who had been a pallbearer at the funeral, in 1941, of ...”

“... favourite television programme and also, by some accounts, Saddam Hussein’s. It was based on Laura IngallsWilder’s eight novels, which have now entered the Library of America as The Little House Books: the first Tea Party favourites to join its ranks. Rose Wilder Lane, who ...”

“... parochial limitations of our worldview’.Behind the cash register Tunde notices a card signed by Laura Bush, as well as a typewritten history of the site on which the shop stands. He reads it while paying for the headdress, and learns that in 1703 the settler family living there was ‘attacked by Indians’, who killed the mother and her children before ...”

“... books in which much worse things happen than the semi-accidental death of an insect. The Laura IngallsWilder books feature a pig being butchered and wild talk of Indian massacres, but no one calls The Little House in the Big Woods ‘repellent’. The difference is that ...”

“... smell of sweat and smoke. Her father has been there. This sets up a genuine tremor of dread. The wilder shores of love are also investigated by Carolyn Slaughter in The Banquet, but here the tragic naivety impersonated by Deborah Moggach is replaced by a sense of strain which is in its way entirely appropriate. Harold Moreton is a solemn young bachelor of ...”