Another year, another rush of novels by hot Irish talent. Barrett has already produced two rapturously received short story collections. This, his debut novel, centres on the kidnapping of a teenage ...
Quality fizz for under a tenner? Something luscious to go with the pud? Our man rounds up the wines fit to grace any table this year Quinta do Noval Colheita 2003 Tawny Port (21.5%) ...
Actor Richard Armitage is best known for his roles in films such as the Hobbit, but he is fast becoming recognised for his stylishly written thrillers. The Cut tells the tale of Ben Knott, a ...
This haunting novel centres around moving exhibits in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb — a real place. Tyler is an Afghanistan veteran in trauma counselling for his war experiences.
It’s 2011. Abandoning her London life, Margaret Penny returns to her mother’s cold, pokey flat in Edinburgh. She gets a job tracing the families of people who have died alone. Mrs Walker is one of ...
Have you ever thought of going on a literary holiday, travelling to dedicated book towns? Well, you will now. Journalist and author Alex Johnson has written the world’s first directory of paradises of ...
HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW? by Holly Bourne (Hodder £12.99) I adored this expose of how terrible it is to feel like you’re failing compared to your peers. The social pressure to have a ring on your finger ...
A female geologist was once addressing a meeting organised by Nasa, when a man interrupted to say she didn’t understand what she was talking about, and that she definitely needed to read a paper by ...
Edited by Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer (Faber £40, 800 pp) Revered by trendy English teachers, the poet Thom Gunn was always cool. Cruising round San Francisco on his ...
In the 1960s, the New York City Fire Department decided to copy some fish. Specifically, they copied predatory bony types like the perch and barracuda, which emit a slimy substance that reduces ...
Based on the book Twelve Patients: Life And Death At Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer, this medical drama stars The Blacklist’s Ryan Eggold as Dr Max Goodwin, the new medical director at one of ...
Mention 1996 to a music-lover and they will probably think of Oasis or the Spice Girls. But those bands, huge though they were, only had Britain’s second- and third- biggest-selling albums of the year ...
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