Book Reviews

It was recently announced that Virginia Woolf's scandalous love affair with Vita Sackville-West will soon be immortalised in celluloid. Despite having since ... Read more »

'If I had dared, I would have reached out to put my arm around my sad, cold daughter.' At the core of Moss’s fifth novel is a parent-child relationship... Read more »

A man alone in a barn on a moor. Outside is whiteness and emptiness and heat then rain. The man isn’t sleeping much. He’s come out here to escape... Read more »

Getting up to look out of the window one eerily silent night, a wee girl called Sophy spots an extraordinary figure across the street.Something with twa bric... Read more »

If Tommy Lee Jones’ character in No Country for Old Men had been able to see out his final days on the force without the interruption of a bowl-cut-wea... Read more »

Popular fiction’s current dual fixations continue apace. Characters negotiate the dismal misogyny of elaborately plotted murder/abduction fantasies or ... Read more »