Book review: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

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

Book review: The Colony by Audrey Magee

Lloyd is travelling to a remote Irish island because he wants to paint the cliffs. He is going in a … More

I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya … More

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

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

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

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

Ruth Downie’s crime series set in Roman Britain is my current favourite comfort read. Gaius Petreius Ruso is a Roman … More

The Drowned City is the first in a new series, and under a new name, by historical mystery writer Karen … More

Of course, mothers are everywhere, in life and in fiction. There aren’t many novels that don’t have a mother in … More