Book review: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor

My Father’s House is a novel based on a true story (very loosely based, O’Connor emphasises in an author’s note).…

Book review: The New Life by Tom Crewe

The New Life draws on real events, but freely adapts them. In late-nineteenth-century London, John Addington and Henry Ellis (based…

For some reason I haven’t found much to enjoy in newly published books recently, and have instead been losing myself…

Pol has a rare condition which means his body ages in sudden bursts, rather than gradually. At thirteen he aged…

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

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

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

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

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

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