“Caledonian Road” is a dramatic and epic novel about modern London. It presents snapshots of many different levels of society which mostly circle around ...

What “Call Me By Your Name” did for peaches, “The Safekeep” does for pears. I do love a good historically set novel with lots of twists and turns in its ...

Here are the 6 novels shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize! Some I was really hoping to see and others are... a surprise! A new video is up on my ...

I was initially thrown by the description of this book as a spy novel. Instead of the moody suspenseful tale I was expecting I was surprised to find ...

Although I primarily read fiction I also like to explore quality non-fiction. I've followed The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural ...

At the centre of this story is Makatea, an extremely remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The mayor and its residents (who total less than a hundred ...

Hollinghurst's great big epic spans decades touching upon key moments in the life of English actor Dave Win who narrates this novel. He's an English ...

I really enjoyed this thoughtful story which follows an Icelandic narrator who works as a midwife, sorting through her grandaunt's manuscripts, ...

The best books I've read this year include a classic told from a revelatory new angle, a protagonist who leaves her everyday life to radically reconsider ...