Victorian London

After the Flood: There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak, reviewed

3 August 2024 9:00 am

Water – essential to life and civilisation, but also a potentially destructive force – is the theme linking three disparate strands in Shafak’s magnificent new novel

Murder on Grub Street

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Historical fiction is sometimes accused of being remote from modern concerns, a flight towards nostalgia and fantasy. It’s not an…