Amanda Craig

James Ellroy’s latest attempt to unseat the Great American Novel

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Aficionados of detective fiction have long known that the differences between the soft- and hard-boiled school are so profound that,…

Depression – an agony more powerful than love

17 May 2014 9:00 am

Rachel Kelly, a respected former journalist on the Times, might seem the most blessed of women: five children, marriage to…

Sex and squalor in San Francisco

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Frog Music begins with a crime against a young mother, committed in a tiny space. Unlike Emma Donoghue’s bestselling novel…

Fiction embroiled in the Profumo affair

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Sex, spies, aristocrats and atom bombs — the Profumo affair is in the news again, thanks to the recent Andrew…