Despite their reputation for egocentrism, memoirs are often – perhaps always – about relationships between a narrator and other people. As c...

The Black Country. Dark, foreboding  gloom-ridden. Lie of the Land is exactly the same: dark, foreboding with an aura of gloom and added ten...

  In a world where on the one hand powerful men are abusing their position through predatory activity towards women, whilst on the other the...

Erudite without being pretentious, learned without being dustily academic, philosophical without being obfuscatory, David Vernon’s wonderful...

Blake Morrison’s younger sister, Gill, passed away at 67 from complications related to alcoholism. His latest memoir, Two Sisters , recounts...

This novel tackles difficult themes but Susan Jordan’s experience as a psychotherapist means that she writes with authority and compassion. ...

Set completely on a space ship, the Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey (her fifth) melds the claustrophobic (as opposed t...

My usual thriller and mystery oeuvre is Nordic noir; apart from that I do love a Golden Age mystery thriller  I usually ignore British crime...

Establishing a path for future generations to tread in the footsteps of silent witnesses was the goal of Douglas Gillespie, a young officer ...