Cities on Fire is a genre-bending mash-up of the superhero and spy genres, with a creeping and sinister dose of horror. Spoiler Alert, as we...

I don’t know how many people are familiar with the great event of December 1926 when Agatha Christie disappeared, feared kidnapped or worse,...

Kathryn Daszkiewicz is a poet of understatement and almost scalpel-like precision. Her poems have the impact of a moment of silence in a gra...

How do you describe a ten-year stay in Japan, including two marriages, then a homecoming, and all the problems that cross-cultural relations...

Watching news stories about environmental catastrophe, I feel something like anger, panic, despair, and underneath that something terrible a...

At the end of every year, we ask readers to submit a micro-review of a favourite book from the last twelve months. The book can be from any ...

I like a knotty, argumentative poet.  And I like Donald Davie very much. He was a blind date.  I knew the name but had read, to my knowledge...

Kit De Waal’s narration is clear-eyed and unsentimental, devoid of self-pity, with an extraordinary gift of recall and eye for detail borne ...

I cannot recall ever reading a book with such a sensual, sense-ful, scent-ful opening. The tastes and sights and sounds enveloped me as a re...