Books | Review
Daniel Gray: Contrary to popular perception, Adolf Hitler did frequently cherish books rather than char them. That revelation is not the only original element of ...
Isha Gupta: The optimistic title of this book is not only deceptive as a title, but also masks the true depth of Smith’s literary genius. The title is symbo...
Caroline Bottger: It must be annoying for Scottish crime writers to be constantly compared to Ian Rankin. Similarly, Ian Rankin must find it quite annoying to be compar...
Daniel Gray: Taking the Medicine sets out to demonstrate how ‘doctors, for most of human history, have killed their patients far more often than they have sa...
Renée Rowland: Contemporary ‘wilderness literature’ lacks writers who have the ability to stand outside the shadows of the seminal heavy weights, Emerson...
Kayleigh Bohan: Never mind that Maile Meloy's last novel was on the Orange shortlist, or that Richard and Judy liked it, whichever way that nugget of informat...
Paul F. Cockburn: Since his first appearance back in 1902, many people (including Steven Spielberg) have attempted to produce a follow-up to J. M. Barrie’...
Richard Strachan: Katya Spivak is a young nanny working for the summer amongst the privileged splendour of Bay Harbor. Approached by the elderly Marcus Kidder, she allo...
Gareth K Vile: It seems a a cruel sport to subject England's celebrated lady of letters to such bawdy parody. The fashion of modern times for speaking of matters bet...
Kayleigh Bohan: James Scudamore is no stranger to critical acclaim– his debut, The Amnesia Clinic, won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 2007. It won't ...
Paul F Cockburn: Many successful thrillers rely on placing an ordinary man way out of his depth in some globe-spanning conspiracy, and seeing if he sinks or swims. Mat...
Mathelinda Nabugodi: Anthony Quinn’s The Rescue Man is above all a tribute to Liverpool – the city’s history, architecture and people. The story ...
Nine: With gentle beginnings, this novel resembles a folk tale. It gradually introduces the members of an extended family who have lived in the titu...
Jack Prince: The Children’s Book begins in 1895, when a young runaway is discovered in vaults below the South Kensington Museum. Author Olive Wellwoo...
Nat Smith: The Master and Margarita, once banned by the Soviets, is now regarded as a classic of Russian Literature. Its plot, concerning what happens wh...
