Book review: The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore

In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court…

Book review: The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

The Echo Chamber features a deeply unappealing family whose life is upended by their addiction to celebrity culture and, in…

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis…

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if…

China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just…

The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater…

Asha Ray has a bad time in high school – she’s clever but she doesn’t fit in socially, and feels…

This is the first of two books Charmian Clift wrote about her life in Greece with her husband, George Johnston,…

First Morrissey, now Barbara Pym. They say you should never meet your heroes, perhaps you don’t want to know their…

Is there no end to the achievements of Stacey Abrams? The lawyer, campaigner and politician’s voter outreach programme is widely…