Book review: Aye, Barney by Douglas Lindsay

I’m barging into Barney Thomson’s story eight books in, but I still felt immediately at home with Aye, Barney. Barney is … More

Book review: The Circle of Ceridwen by Octavia Ralph

Over the last year or so I’ve binged my way through Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories (adapted for TV as The … More

I don’t normally do this: compare books and their adaptations, preferring to enjoy one and forget about the other. This … More

Pulse is a designer in 80s London, a working-class boy made good. The day after a haunting dream, still tired … More

When a novel opens with a detective on his way to a murder mystery evening, it’s not hard to guess … More

Her Secret Rose is the first in a trilogy based on the lives of the poet WB Yeats and actor-turned-political … More

My prelaunch tension means I have been struggling to read fiction lately but The Red Hill turned out to be … More

Shaheed! is a fresh and original story set around a South London estate and the young people who live there. It begins … More