If January’s books’ double bill featured men under stress, February’s goes in the opposite direction,…

A Narrow Door is, quite simply, practically perfect. It is beautifully written with a plot…

This week, author Anne Coates reviews two titles, each with two interwoven timelines, where the…

As ever, this year sees a bumper crop of picture books for reading aloud to…

Christmas always sees a rash of novelty titles coming from publishers – jokey, sentimental and…

Sex in the Middle Ages? Nasty, brutish and short, right? Well, we’ve all seen Game…

This week we have two recommends from author Anne Coates, as she discovers the work…

This is a fascinating story set in a time when traveling from Bristol to Nottingham…

Returning for the fourth year, the prestigious Cliveden Literary Festival once again welcomes guests to…

Alix Nathan’s The Warlow Experiment became a Sunday Times book of the year and, like…

This book tells a modern version of an old, old story. A confident, clever articulate…

Recently I caught up with the BBC4 series on Hemingway, which included a particularly arresting…