How to stop being scared of full stops
Modern manners and the fear of the full stop
Bish bash Bosphorus: Elif Shafak’s saga of love and death in Istanbul is crammed with incident on every page
If you like to curl up by the fire with a proper, old-fashioned, saga-style tale about a boy and his…
A beautiful speaking voice is a window to the soul
A beautiful speaking voice draws attention to the words spoken
In search of dead men's bones
Skulls, femurs, ribs, pelvises, piled on top of each other in a chaotic heap: this, Denise Inge discovered, was what…
It’s not easy for a middle-aged woman to get inside the head of a 12-year-old innkeeper’s son in 1914
Esther Freud wrote dazzlingly in the first person through the eyes of a five-year-old child in her first novel, Hideous…
The vote on women bishops is a triumph for our diplomatic Archbishop
The vote on women bishops is a triumph for our diplomatic Archbishops
The Snow Queen crawls at snail’s pace – and you wouldn’t want it any other way
For all would-be novelists whose stumbling block is that they can’t resist describing every single sensation in depth — the…
When No Man's Land is home
Countless writers and film-makers this year will be trying their hand at forcing us to wake up and smell the…
As Green as Grass, by Emma Smith - review
The title, the subtitle, the author’s plain name, even the jacket’s photograph of a laughing old lady in sunglasses: none…
A Corner of Paradise, by Brian Thompson - review
Author has late-blossoming romance with authoress, both divorcees, and they live together in a cramped house in Harrogate full of…
