Samuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded as one of the great classic texts...
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“Virgil and Homer would recognise these hulking airborne men,” Helen Garner wrote of AFL players in her...
When The Salt Path came out in 2018, it was a publishing phenomenon, going on to sell...
Allan Ahlberg, the children’s writer famous for popular children’s books such as Each Peach Pear Plum and...
Passion by David Morley (Carcanet, £12.99)David Morley’s ardent, vividly alive latest collection draws on his Romany background...
My earliest reading memory I have a distinct memory of sitting by the bookshelves in the first house we...
Andrea Long Chu stands accused of not playing by the rules, of appraising works of fiction as...
The children’s writer Allan Ahlberg, who has died aged 87, could turn his hand to most genres,...
Author Allan Ahlberg, who delighted generations of children with colourful characters and nimble rhymes, has died aged...
The opening image of Martin Cruz Smith’s 1981 novel Gorky Park – three faceless corpses breaking through...
Sitting somewhere between fiction and memoir, Moreno Giovannoni’s second novel is a tenderly written portrait of life...
When Christopher Stephens was a student at Oxford in the early 2000s, a friend asked him a...
Irvine Welsh, author The user-friendly short chapter format of Nicci Cloke’s Her Many Faces, designed for our...
It has all the makings of a classic Val McDermid mystery: a sudden death, a cast of...
There’s no getting around it: Dreaming of Dead People is an extremely strange book. Born in 1941,...
There’s no getting around it: Dreaming of Dead People is an extremely strange book. Born in 1941,...
Helen Garner has praised Dua Lipa as a “serious and sensitive” interviewer after the British superstar added...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a bibliophile in possession of a good fortune must be...
