Book Review: The Gift of Friends by Emma Hannigan

Emma Hannigan’s The Gift of Friends is a surprisingly touching story of neighbours and friends, which…

Sara Alexander on the inspiration behind The Last Concerto

The Sardinian summers of my childhood were about food, vast numbers of family crowding around…

Book Review: Life Of The Party – If A Girl Screams, And Other Poems by Olivia Gatwood

I don’t read poetry. That’s not a principle, or even intentional. It’s just that when…

Book Review: Shelf Life by Livia Franchini

After ten long years together, Ruth’s fiancé Neil decides to dump her when she again…

Book Review: My Not So Functional Family by Bridie Jabour

Just like any large family, Bridie Jabour’s first novel My Not So Functional Family – or…

Book Review: The Carer by Deborah Moggach

From The Ex-Wives to These Foolish Things, Deborah Moggach has always been a writer who understands…

Book Review: The Offing by Benjamin Myers

The summer of his sixteenth year, not long after World War Two has ended, Robert…

Book Review: Love, Unscripted by Owen Nicholls

“Richard Curtis meets Nick Hornby” is a veritable catnip description for any rom-com devotee. There…

Book Review: The Warehouse by Rob Hart

Rob Hart’s first standalone novel The Warehouse is a scarily plausible thriller set in a technologically…

The mothers of bad mothers: Sherri Smith on the worst mothers of the thriller genre

In my novel, The Retreat, Katie Manning is a former child-star who endured a strained…

Comic Review: Teen Titans – Raven

Teen Titans: Raven is a new young adult comic book, written by Kami Garcia and illustrated…

The Warehouse author Rob Hart on living inside the economic empathy gap

Rob Hart’s first standalone novel examines our day-to-day complicity in a system that prioritises cheap…