When Sarah Pinborough’s thriller Behind Her Eyes was published in 2017, even she described it as a “Marmite book”. Her...
Fiction
Val McDermid, 65, is sometimes referred to as the queen of crime, and her triumphantly Scottish oeuvre is dubbed “tartan...
Francis Spufford kills off all the protagonists of his new novel in the first chapter. “I want the reader to...
Somewhere in the dark, vast abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, deep beneath the waves, lies a civilisation. For centuries the...
The book I am currently readingFlights by Olga Tokarczuk. I knew nothing about it when I started and have been...
4 Winners of five Costa category awards announced.8 The Father released – Florian Zeller directs an adaptation of his own...
This time last year, Kiley Reid was a tantalising rumour, the truth of which was known only to her publishers...
I’ve always struggled with the concept of asking for help. To me it seems like acknowledging a failure, raising a...
Author of Booker prize winner Shuggie Bain Elaine Feeney’s As You Were (Harvill Secker, £14.99) is a revelation with regard...
The book I am currently readingThe New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s graphic memoir of her parents Can’t We Talk About...
