Amanda Craig

Tabloid fever

22 July 2023 9:00 am

A tabloid journalist desperate for a scoop pursues a young Irish mother whose daughter is rumoured to have killed a child. But is there any truth in the story?

Lost to addiction: Loved and Missed, by Susie Boyt, reviewed

11 September 2021 9:00 am

Ruth, the narrator of Susie Boyt’s seventh novel, is both the child of a single mother and a single mother…

The burden of guilt: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, by Richard Flanagan, reviewed

16 January 2021 9:00 am

Thanks to the Booker Prize, Richard Flanagan is probably the only Tasmanian novelist British readers are likely to have heard…

Bombs over London: V for Victory, by Lissa Evans, reviewed

22 August 2020 9:00 am

Lissa Evans has been single-handedly rescuing the Hampstead novel from its reputation of being preoccupied by pretension and middle-class morality.…

A novel of terror and hope on the Mexican-American border

1 February 2020 9:00 am

Lydia and Luca are hiding in the shower room of their home while 16 members of her family are murdered.…

As Lyra grows up, Philip Pullman’s materials grow darker

5 October 2019 9:00 am

Two years after Philip Pullman published La Belle Sauvage, the prequel to His Dark Materials trilogy, we have its long-awaited…

My agonising vigil over my twins’ fight for life

8 June 2019 9:00 am

Memoirs about giving birth, a subject once shrouded in mystery, have become so popular that another may seem otiose. We…