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

Book review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

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

I’m reposting this review of A Little Life, written before I had a blog, ahead of publication of Hanya Yanagihara’s … 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

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

Vera Kelly is posing as a Canadian student in Buenos Aires in 1966, but she is actually working for the … More

I was surprised when I looked at a few review sites and saw that Anglo-Saxon Attitudes wasn’t particularly popular among … More

The Heart’s Invisible Furies has a familiar premise. A young girl in rural Ireland is pregnant and is driven out … More

After loving The Heart’s Invisible Furies, I was looking forward to reading John Boyne’s latest novel. A Ladder to the … More