Books

Book Review: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The most tired piece of advice given to first time novelists is ‘write what you know’. It discounts both the power of imagination and the power of good research... 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: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Think Cinderella, but in Mexico, in the 1920’s. And instead of a handsome prince, there’s a handsome death god. Casiopea is the eighteen-year-old granddaught... 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...

Nick Setchfield: Scare Tissue – Four Frights That Left Their Mark On Me

MIDWINTER You don’t expect to find existential dread in the pages of Radio Times – let alone the Christmas issue. But when I was seven a single paragraph, pa... 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...

Book Review: Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland

We never learn her name. When we meet the heroine of Fake Like Me, she is a struggling artist in awe of the notorious Pine City collective, Carey Logan being he... Read More...

Tom Chatfield on writing a novel that wrestles his fascinations into fictional form

I studied and then taught English literature at Oxford, moving from my undergraduate degree through a masters to a doctorate looking at the second half of the 2... 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...

Book Review: Expectation by Anna Hope

Lissa is an actress who’s fed up of the grind. Cate’s a new mum who is lonely in her marriage. Hannah’s strenuous IVF journey has left her husband feeling shut ... Read More...

8 new books to read this July

Murder mysteries, dark fantasy and Mediterranean travels feature in our round-up of this month's top books. We've narrowed the selection down to eight. The only... Read More...

Win two Dungeons & Dragons Young Adventurer’s Guides

If you're a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, you won't want to miss out on this new series of introductory guidebooks, which kicks off with Monsters & Creatur... Read More...

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Books

Book Review: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

Book Review: The July Girls by Phoebe Locke

Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Book Review: Looker by Laura Sims

Nick Setchfield: Scare Tissue – Four Frights That Left Their Mark On Me

Book Review: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

Book Review: Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland

Tom Chatfield on writing a novel that wrestles his fascinations into fictional form

8 YA books to pack in your summer holiday bag

Book Review: Expectation by Anna Hope

8 new books to read this July

Win two Dungeons & Dragons Young Adventurer’s Guides