Book Review: Arctic Zoo by Robert Muchamore

Arctic Zoo is a YA thriller about young people coming into their own power. Centred on fifteen and sixteen year old Georgia and Julius, we explore their different worlds and how they end up crossing paths on a mental health ward.

Book Review: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The most tired piece of advice given to first time novelists is ‘write what you…

Book Review: The July Girls by Phoebe Locke

It’s 2005 and Addie is about to turn ten. With an absent mother and volatile…

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…

Book Review: Looker by Laura Sims

Laura Sims’ dark domestic debut is a book about what happens when fascination veers dangerously…

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 –…

Book Review: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

There’s a lot going on in Kate Atkinson’s latest literary crime novel, Big Sky. Women…

Book Review: Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland

We never learn her name. When we meet the heroine of Fake Like Me, she…

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…

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…

Book Review: Expectation by Anna Hope

Lissa is an actress who’s fed up of the grind. Cate’s a new mum who…

8 new books to read this July

Murder mysteries, dark fantasy and Mediterranean travels feature in our round-up of this month’s top…