Book Review: Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic

When we first meet Anya, she is on her way to a holiday in France…

Fiction Preview: 20 books to look forward to reading in 2021

We’re only three weeks into the New Year and January has already delivered some of…

Book Review: A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

In A Room Called Earth, the debut novel from Australian writer Madeleine Ryan, we are…

Book Review: Paris By Starlight by Robert Dinsdale

Having been thoroughly enchanted by Robert Dinsdale’s speculative fiction novel The Toymakers in 2018, I…

Book Review: The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean

In a remote farmhouse in the East Midlands, surrounded by wide, flat, open fields, lives…

Book Review: A Thing Called Love by Nell Carter

“This is not a love story” the front cover of this Nell Carter novel warns…

Book Review: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Ready Player Two is the slightly more mature, but no less blinkered, early years teen…

8 cosy and heart-warming books to read over Christmas

‘Tis the season for candy canes, cosy knitwear and twinkling light displays. For book lovers,…

Book Review: People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield

Stories of Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer who stalked East London’s impoverished areas in…

The best books of 2020: The Glass Hotel, Hamnet, The Foundling and more

In a year that’s seen so many theatre productions shut down, close to all movie…

Book Review: The Port of London Murders (British Library Crime Classics) by Josephine Bell

The arrival of the San Angelo into port in the Pool of London (the stretch…

Book Review: Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation by Edward O. Wilson, Jim Ottaviani & C.M. Butzer

“Most children have a bug period; I never grew out of mine.” Heralded as “the…