Book review: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris

Charles II has been restored to the throne and Parliament wants revenge on those who signed the death warrant of … More

Book review: Instructions for the Working Day by Joanna Campbell

Neil Fischer is shy, socially awkward and repressed – an English archetype. His late father, though, was from East Germany. … More

Interest rates are at the front of everyone’s mind at the moment, so The Price of Time is a timely … More

Hothouse Earth, written by geologist and activist Bill McGuire, is a great summary for the general reader of the key … More

In The Night Interns, an unnamed intern in an unnamed Irish city goes through a year of night shifts with … More

In a Strange Room was originally published as three travel memoirs in the Paris Review but was published as a … More

Having read George Monbiot’s journalism, I knew Regenesis would be a brilliantly argued and carefully researched read on the challenges … More

Julia Lerner is a Russian spy, carefully selected and groomed to be an asset in Silicon Valley. But Julia is … More

The Swarts are a family of white South African farmers. The Promise tells their story from the 1980s onwards through … More

I didn’t know anything about John Wilkes Booth apart from the fact that he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, so Booth was … More