Many years ago I knew an elderly Russian lady living in Somerset. Like many of her generation, she had undergone dramatic experiences at the time of the Revolution. One particularly frightening ...

Being a Peter Ackroyd ‘history’ or imaginative excursion down England’s most famous river, Sacred River is a book full of dreams and visions, whimsy and religiosity, and sometimes unfalsifiable and ...

Writing about nature is no stroll in the park. I speak from experience, having set a novel on a farm in the 1970s and taught creative writing in various rural parts of England. Sometimes we send ...

In April 1591, six royal ships under the command of Lord Thomas Howard left Plymouth to intercept the annual Spanish flota, laden with New World treasure, off the Azores. Unfortunately for Howard, his ...

Lost in the Supermarket - A Working Title I Want to Change by Saul Leslie ...

A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new ...

You get a sense of the tone of Séamas O’Reilly’s debut novel before the action even begins. ‘To remember everything is a form of madness … confusion is not an ignoble condition,’ reads the first ...

Raccoons divide opinion: some see them as bandit-masked evil geniuses, others as cute critters. They owe their success to ...

The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac (Translated from French by Lauren Elkin) ...

Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A ...

Born into raffish Polish-Russian gentry in 1870, Vera Gedroits resisted convention from an early age. Passionate and ...