Sarah Bower
Death on the Marais
This is the first in a series of crime mysteries set in northern France in the 1960s. Inspector Lucas Rocco,…
Two for Sorrow
This is the second in Upson’s planned series of crime novels featuring Josephine Tey, one of the doyennes of the…
Ransom
Editors' choice
Ransom is a diamond of a novel, tiny but flawless, prose so pared away and carefully constructed that however many…
Turbulence
From time to time weather forecasters find themselves in the news (remember Michael Fish and the hurricane?) but mostly, they…
All the Nice Girls
It’s a pity this book has come up for review for the autumn magazine as it is a perfect…
The Celtic Revolution
In his introduction to The Celtic Revolution, Simon Young tells us he has “erred on the side of comprehensibility” in…
Orwell Diaries
This collection of eleven of Orwell’s diaries, from 1931 to 1949, is a treasure, both for the historical and literary…
American Adulterer
This novel is unputdownable. Much of what makes it compulsive reading, however, is its voyeuristic quality. Although written in prose…
The Father of Locks
Andrew Killeen’s debut novel introduces us to an engaging and resourceful rogue, the court poet and sometimes spy Abu Nawas,…
October Skies
In the spring of 1857, a starving man dressed in rags emerges from the forest surrounding a small American town.…
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