Keith Chandler’s The Goldsmith’s Apprentice is a fascinating collection of poems which explores humanity with great empathy and skill. ...

We are made, destroyed and remade by the stories we are told as we grow up. Maxine Hong Kingston’s fantastic The Woman Warrior: Memoirs ...

Diana Wynne Jones’s terrifically funny Howl’s Moving Castle has long been eclipsed by other fantasy novels of our time. Published in 20...

Lemn Sissay's play  Something Dark  is powerful in its ability to allow us to enter directly into the mind and experiences of a chil...

Ancestors , published in 2002, is the debut novel of Paul Crooks, written after his personal journey into his own African and Jamaican ...

This is a deftly-written and highly moving account of the effects of dementia on an elderly woman, May of the title, and those around h...

Do you like Childish Gambino's new song, This is America ? If so, read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book, Americanah . It discusse...

Alison Moore 's first novel, The Lighthouse , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards (New Writer of t...

How many of us read historical novels, wondering how the events of the past can help us interpret those of today? Helen Dunmore blends t...