Good Grief: Pragmatic, inspiring memoir by ‘twin widows’Book review: Mother and daughter Anne Mayer Bird and Catherine Mayer offer profound insight into process of bereavementTue Jan 05 2021 - 06:00
To Be a Man: Nuanced and provocative short storiesBook review: Debut collection by Nicole Krauss, the bestselling author of The History of Love, examines what it means to be humanMon Nov 16 2020 - 06:00
Piranesi: Susanna Clarke’s enchanting, extravagant fusion of magic and memoryBook review: The writer’s long-awaited second novel lives up to the hypeWed Nov 04 2020 - 06:00
Just Like You: Nick Hornby’s contemporary love story nestled in a Brexit novelA relationship blossoms between a young black man and middle-aged white woman in Nick Hornby’s ninth novelThu Oct 01 2020 - 06:00
How Inis Oírr inspired the fictional island in The Truth Must Dazzle GraduallyFoundations for Helen Cullen’s latest book were laid during her time as a teenager on the islandMon Aug 24 2020 - 06:00
Rodham: What if Hillary hadn’t married Bill?Book review: Sittenfeld’s premise is rich with opportunity but this art imitating life doesn’t ring trueMon Jun 01 2020 - 06:00
A Theatre for Dreamers: A fresh look at the halcyon days of 1960s HydraBook review: Leonard Cohen's Greek idyll is the subject of Polly Samson’s novel set on the island of HydraFri May 15 2020 - 06:00
The Weight of Love review: Hilary Fannin’s debut novel sears itself on the brainTale of a love triangle in London and Dublin finds new things to say about heartbreakTue Mar 24 2020 - 06:00
A Small Revolution in Germany review: refusal to become disillusionedPhilip Hensher’s masterly narrative plots the vigours of youth against pragmatic survivalSat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00
The power of the pre-order: How to help an author make itI had never understood this as a reader, but it’s clear to me now that I’m a writerWed Jan 29 2020 - 05:38
Such a Fun Age: Powerful debut hits the literary bullseyeBook review: Kiley Reid provokes the reader to consider daily incidents experienced by people of colourMon Jan 06 2020 - 06:00
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout: prepare your heart and mind for some beautiful blowsReview: Ten years on we find Olive Kitteridge having to confront her old ageWed Nov 13 2019 - 06:00
The Dutch House: Ann Patchett’s career-defining masterpieceBook review: Author’s delicate portrayal of ordinary devastations is arrestingSun Oct 06 2019 - 06:00
A Single Thread: Stunning prose that will stay with you for a long timeBook review: Tracy Chevalier’s novel on the consequences of war may be her best yetWed Oct 02 2019 - 06:00
Brett Anderson: ‘I was trying to look at myself as a specimen’Suede singer discusses his second memoir and how it swings from candour to euphoriaSat Sept 28 2019 - 06:00
The Man Who Saw Everything review: Electrifying and profoundDeborah Levy’s Booker-longlisted novel scrutinises the interior world of its characters with laser-like precisionWed Sept 04 2019 - 06:00
The Hiding Game: An intoxicating novel brimming with BauhäusersBook review: Naomi Wood's powerful observation of what it means to be humanThu Jul 25 2019 - 06:00
Sweet Sorrow review: A quiet, tender testament to first loveDavid Nicholls, the author of One Day and Us, returns with a bittersweet but comic coming-of-age novelWed Jul 17 2019 - 06:00
Helen Cullen: the literary letters I have loved the mostFrom Patti Smith and Vita Sackville-West to the inventions of Jane Austen and Ian McEwanFri May 17 2019 - 05:26
Remembered review: A tale that will linger long in the memoryAn unflinching and haunting story that addresses the legacy of the slave tradeSat Apr 13 2019 - 06:00
The Strawberry Thief review: More magic from Chocolat makerJoanne Harris is back in the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes – this is one of the bestSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Reasons to be Cheerful review: Darkly comic account of coming of ageNina Stibbe is one of the great comic writers of our timeSat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
A Well-Behaved Woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts review: Thought provoking examination of an extraordinary lifeThis portrait of Alva Vanderbilt is a treat for anyone interested in New York’s glorious Gilded AgeSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Born Lippy review: honest, funny but not exactly inspiringJo Brand ’s articulate moaning about the trials and tribulations of life as a woman feels more like the advice a slightly tipsy aunt might yield at the end of a family weddingSat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00
How my childhood reading made me a writerThey say a mother’s love is a blessing. I say a mother’s love of reading is one of the greatest blessings of allFri Oct 26 2018 - 05:57
The Lost Letters of William Woolf playlist: why music is keyGiving characters the perfect song to reflect their mood deepened my connection with themMon Oct 08 2018 - 13:02
Becoming Belle review: 19th-century pin-up richly fictionalisedNuala O’Connor’s historical novel follows Isabel Bilton from mouse to bohemian starSat Sept 08 2018 - 06:00
The lost art of letter-writing: let the revolution commenceEmail and social media keep us in touch. But what about the thrill of seeing a letter on the doormat?Sat Jul 07 2018 - 06:00
