There’s more to Patricia Highsmith than Ripley

With her novels reissued as Modern Classics and a Todd Haynes adaptation on the way, the master of the psychological thriller is about to have a moment

On holiday in the Lake District last week, we pitched up at our favourite secondhand bookshop in Windermere, only to find… Oh, no. Where once there had been a small bookcase containing paperbacks at a pound a pop, now there were only sprouting dandelions. The Fireside Bookshop, blessed saviour of the damp walker in need of a soothing Barbara Pym or Patrick Hamilton (OK, Patrick Hamilton is not, in fact, very soothing, but you know what I mean), has relocated to Littlehampton in Sussex.

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