Book review: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde

Sometimes I feel like I want a lighter read, but when I search most of what I find is cookie-cutter … More

Book review: The Sharing Economy by Sophie Berrebi

Gabrielle Bloom leads an appealing life in Amsterdam. She is affluent and cultured, moving between her job liaising with artists … More

Book review: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Humour and fast-paced plotting from the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries Birnam Wood pits a group of guerilla … More

Book review: One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya

One Small Voice skilfully interweaves the coming-of-age story of Shubhankar Trivedi (Shabby) with a backdrop of communal violence which touches … More

Book review: The Untameable by Guillermo Arriaga, translated by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer

A tale of revenge and redemption from the screenwriter of Amores Perros It is 1960s Mexico City. The parents of … More

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). … More

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 … More

Series Love: The Chronicles of Carlingford by Margaret Oliphant

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

Book review: The End of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

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

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