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

In a Strange Room was originally published as three travel memoirs in the Paris Review but was published as a … More

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

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

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