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 Night Interns by Austin Duffy

In The Night Interns, an unnamed intern in an unnamed Irish city goes through a year of night shifts with … More

Ruth Downie’s crime series set in Roman Britain is my current favourite comfort read. Gaius Petreius Ruso is a Roman … More

Alejandro Stern is a recurring character in Scott Turow’s Kindle County thrillers. He was the defence lawyer in his most … More

Frank Eloff is a world-weary doctor in a remote South African hospital. His world is upturned when an idealistic young … More

If you don’t want to know how this book ends, look away now … I don’t normally do spoiler … More

Kozłowski tells the story of a young Polish army doctor who is one of the few survivors after the disappearance, … More

Murder in the Mill-Race, first published in 1952, is reissued as a British Library Crime Classic. It struck me as … More

Nicholas Anderton is a successful neurosurgeon, married to a lawyer, with two adult children. But he is also grappling with … More

This is the story of a marriage but it is also a clever study of power. Ali Bobrow, artistic, beautiful … More