Book review: Misery by Stephen King

I’ve been wanting to read Misery for years but have somehow not got round to it till now (and miraculously … More

Book review: Family Money by Nina Bawden

A London property bubble, impoverished hospitals, worries about care in old age – this novel, published in 1991, feels oddly … More

People have been telling me to read Barbara Pym ever since my English teacher first recommended her, but I didn’t … More

Sarah Vincent is in her fifties, single, a respected teacher and poet, liked by her friends but also protective of … More

Manservant and Maidservant is so different from anything I’ve read – classic or contemporary – that I struggled with it … More

I hadn’t heard of Janet McNeill until recently but when she was compared with Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Pym I immediately wanted to … More

The history of World War Two we learnt at school went something like this. There were these bad people in … More