Category Archive : Books

Popular picks for July

Geoffrey Wansell picks out the best crime books out this month

Anthony Cummins reviews literary fiction

Head-spinning historical fiction out this month

After breaking his neck, Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again but, when climbing one of the world’s tallest mountains five years later, death reared its head again…

The presence of slavery has been far reaching. While the West attempts to find a means of reparation there is a history of slavery in the East that is often neglected.

Holly Jackson answers our burning questions, what’s she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, what left her cold?

What has a life of crime-writing taught some of Britain’s bestselling authors about how to keep safe – at home and away?

As birth rates across the Western world fall to the lowest since records began, Helen Taylor, now in her 70s, considers whether her decision not to have children was the right choice

“Here’s to pure mathematics – may it never be of use to anyone.”