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: Luck Is Just the Beginning by Celeste León

In Luck Is Just the Beginning, Celeste León draws on the true story of her father. Ramón León is a … More

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

World War II is a popular theme in fiction at the moment but I haven’t seen many books about Italy … More

I’m fascinated by characters who don’t fit into simple categories – hero, villain, survivor, victim – so I was intrigued … More

Orléans detective Inès Picaut is called in to investigate the murder of an elderly woman, who has been killed in … More

For a book about war, Point of No Return has an oddly gentle pace. It follows a US infantry battalion … More

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