ICE cold and cloudless, tower-blocks and tenements etched against the Glasgow sky, it is a heavenly day to be hurrying through the city to keep an appointment with a book. The Book, in fact - a first ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...