Book review: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

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

Book review: The Performance by Claire Thomas

The Performance has a wonderful premise. Three women are in a theatre in Melbourne, watching a performance of Samuel Beckett’s … More

Of course, mothers are everywhere, in life and in fiction. There aren’t many novels that don’t have a mother in … More

I haven’t read any Bernard Cornwell before. I like social and political history while his novels appear to be more … More

Nicholas Barber is a fourteenth-century cleric who has left his position in Lincoln Cathedral through youthful restlessness. He is therefore … More