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A miner dreams of a better future for his son in this visceral tale of the men who powered the Industrial RevolutionDaniel Wiles’s brutal, breviloquent debut n […]

The Honourable Schoolboy In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy George Smiley uncovered a Russian mole at the highest levels of the British Secret Service. Now put in […]

What does it feel like to be ‘12% machine’? An ex-soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan examines the implications of advances in medical technology with int […]

Nope.

I was indeed a tiny cat in a falafel on television.

Because it was made as a promotion after the show was made, I guess. It’s a lovely bonus thing. Also one of those Nuns looks a lot like me and is out of the habit.

Sometimes the artists feel that they don’t need a prose line from the story in an adaptation if they can show the thing in the picture.

Yes, Elizabeth Berrington will be back as Dagon. I went looking for a press release to show you, but couldn’t find one. Trust me. She’ll be back.

Don’t squeeze them in for the sake of it. Put them in where they feel natural, and it’s fun to put them in.

It’s odd. Sometimes it’s flattering, sometimes it’s enlightening, a lot of the time it makes me sigh and wish that people read more carefully. (My rule is that […]

Celebrated author and illustrator’s work inspired by Polish childhood and experience as wartime refugeeJan Pieńkowski, the beloved illustrator and author of mo […]

A quarter of a century after the bestselling Rachel’s Holiday, the author catches up with her creation in a witty and warm-hearted sequelWhen Marian Keyes a […]

Sydney Halpern’s account of postwar US research that deliberately infected hundreds with the disease is shocking – and important for the Covid eraFor three dec […]

Christina Patterson’s family memoir is crammed with challenges, setbacks, illness and death, and yet remains a wonderfully uplifting readIn another age Christina P […]

Inseminoid On a distant planet a team of archaeologists are uncovering the ruins of an ancient civilisation. A room with mysterious markings and weird crystals […]

Orally.

Sometimes the artists feel that they don’t need a prose line from the story in an adaptation if they can show the thing in the picture.

Still using Libre Office. Mostly because it’s the only WP I know that still speaks Word Perfect, and all my files from 1986-2005ish are in Word Perfect.

Six months on from the fall of Kabul, a collection of essays unpicks the catastrophic mess the west has left behind in Afghanistan, while the story of one young […]

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet is set in the 1960s and consists of a fictional biography of Arthur Collins Braithwaite, a radical psychoanalyst with a […]

Archive Of The Inexplicable And Dangerous by Alexandra Grunberg in Future Fire Cassandra stumbled on strange and uncanny events and transferred to the Archive Of […]