During the darkest days of the Trump presidency, writer Alexandra Weiss and her colleagues at the Black Book gallery in...
Books
When Sarah Pinborough’s thriller Behind Her Eyes was published in 2017, even she described it as a “Marmite book”. Her...
“You know what you look like with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube.” It...
Val McDermid, 65, is sometimes referred to as the queen of crime, and her triumphantly Scottish oeuvre is dubbed “tartan...
Are you one of the “lockdown sceptics”? They are a vocal but largely inexpert minority of commentators who argue that...
Francis Spufford kills off all the protagonists of his new novel in the first chapter. “I want the reader to...
Jason Lee knew he was in trouble when he stepped on the set. The year was 1992, Sonic Youth were...
Somewhere in the dark, vast abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, deep beneath the waves, lies a civilisation. For centuries the...
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, four slim volumes about the natural world, aimed at children, hit the bookshops....
The book I am currently readingFlights by Olga Tokarczuk. I knew nothing about it when I started and have been...
