Browsing: Books

April 8, 2023 · 9:23 am Lessons by Ian McEwan spans the life of Roland Baines, born shortly after the Second…

May 18, 2023 · 6:49 pm Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake is a travel memoir which documents the…

High noon. Midnight. When a novel or movie is set at one of those precipitous times, the conflict is built…

June 17, 2023 · 12:05 pm Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my most anticipated books of 2023.…

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life…

July 15, 2023 · 9:13 am I went to the Hay Festival for a couple of days at the end…

August 19, 2023 · 9:49 am Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now…

September 9, 2023 · 12:28 pm The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell is a fictionalised account of the marriage of…

It’s officially the Christmas season and what better way to relax than settle in with a festive book. To give…

October 13, 2023 · 7:54 pm The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in…