Book Review: The Carer by Deborah Moggach

From The Ex-Wives to These Foolish Things, Deborah Moggach has always been a writer who understands the fragility of life and what it means to be human. Her cha... Read More...

Book Review: Love, Unscripted by Owen Nicholls

“Richard Curtis meets Nick Hornby” is a veritable catnip description for any rom-com devotee. There couldn’t be a better way of describing Owen Nicholls’ uplift... Read More...

Book Review: The Warehouse by Rob Hart

Rob Hart’s first standalone novel The Warehouse is a scarily plausible thriller set in a technologically advanced near-future. America has succumbed to mass con... Read More...

8 of the best books to read this August

From thrillers and crime to family dramas and romantic feel-good fiction, here's our pick of the best books to read this month. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jew... Read More...

Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate only has 160 pages, yet this high-concept sci-fi novella has more depth, meaning and intelligence than many of the fu... Read More...

Book Review: The Girl At The Window by Rowan Coleman

Part family drama, part supernatural mystery and part classic romance, Rowan Coleman’s The Girl At The Window is a book that wears its Brontë inspirations proud... Read More...

Book Review: Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

Looking at the cover of Very Nice, you could easily be fooled into thinking it’s just another glamorous summer book full of sun, swimming pools and romance. Whi... Read More...

Book Review: At the Pond – Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

It’s over 30°C and the air is thick with sticky, humid heat. It’s the kind of broiling heatwave that melts you to a puddle on the ground the moment you step out... Read More...

Book Review: The July Girls by Phoebe Locke

It’s 2005 and Addie is about to turn ten. With an absent mother and volatile father, all she can look forward to is a modest celebration with her older sister J... Read More...

Book Review: Looker by Laura Sims

Laura Sims’ dark domestic debut is a book about what happens when fascination veers dangerously into obsession. It centres on The Professor, a woman who lives a... Read More...

Book Review: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

There’s a lot going on in Kate Atkinson’s latest literary crime novel, Big Sky. Women with dark pasts. Marriages built on secrets. Old friends reuniting. Girls ... Read More...

8 YA books to pack in your summer holiday bag

The first half of 2019 has delivered some unputdownable YA novels. From Stephanie Garber's spellbinding Finale and Kat Cho's Korean urban fantasy Wicked Fox, to... Read More...