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…

Book Review: The Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black

Holly Black is having a well-deserved moment in YA fantasy right now, following the phenomenal…

Comic Review: Superman: Action Comics Volume 1 – Invisible Mafia

Spinning right out of the Man of Steel miniseries, Invisible Mafia sees Superman come face to face…