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This week I read seven books! I loved, loved, LOVED listening to Christopher Plummer narrate Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It included Through […]

Dearest gentle reader, the talk of the ton this social season is none other than the latest drama unfolding in the Bridgerton … Continued

Charity partners behind the National Year of Reading named Charities of the Year for 2026 National Year of Reading to be discussed across the Fair with speakers […]

2024 paranormal fantasy, seventh of a nine-book series. Things are
getting worse, but there’s still time for one last selfless quest.

Graphic novels written and drawn by a single author/artist are perhaps the truest vision of what the form can be. Brian Talbot is certainly one of the best creators […]

2021 fantasy for children. The Studio Mandolini is one of several that
paints Illuminations: magical paintings that ward off mice from the
cheese or prevent fires. […]

1997 mystery, tenth of Granger’s novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby
and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. The couple are having some time
away in a tiny village. […]

Welcome to the February issue of The Romance Edit. Love is in the air, and from instant chemistry, regency romance, … Continued

2024 urban fantasy, first of a trilogy. Sierra was taken to High Earth
as a child and taught magic… and was then dumped back in our own
non-magical world. She is very angry.

You can never have too many books! So what’s stopping you from stuffing your Kindle with more irresistible romances? If … Continued

2020 historical mystery anthology, a crossover between four authors.
The pocket watch known as La Sirène has always been said to be
cursed. But is it really?

2022 fantasy-romance, second of its loose series. Poppy got drunk
after a bad breakup, and thinks she put some real cursing magic into
one of the crystal trinkets […]

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Madeleine Gray has followed her hit debut with a sharp take on complicated parenting. She discusses love, sex and famous fansMadeleine Gray remembers the first time […]

Allowing payments to organ donors would undoubtedly save lives. So what are the psychological – and political – impediments?Right now, about 7,000 people are awa […]

I wasn’t impressed by the Princess Bride when I first saw clips of it. It looked like a cheap and corny fantasy film, on a par with something like Hawk the Slayer. […]

As a bookish child with a distant father and a disapproving mother, the Curious Incident author retreated into a world of his own. Looking back, he asks what it […]

From handbags to drug gangs to central banks – one of Britain’s finest investigative reporters reveals the surprising links in a global chain of crimeQuestion: why […]

Caring canines; daring donuts; a golden monkey; a boy from another planet; a dark take on Little Women and moreThe Good Deed Dogs by Emma Chichester Clark, Walker, […]

The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really […]

Inspired by a conversation with Russ
Allbery, I found myself
thinking that while I know a lot of the standard science fiction terms
(FTL, big dumb object, […]

To mark the publication of Jean, Madeleine Dunnigan will be speaking at the following events. Wednesday 11 February – Goldsmith’s College, London Wednesday 18 […]

Alex Jennings’s performance hums with buried rage in Christopher Isherwood’s landmark exploration of griefAt the start of A Single Man, George Falconer wakes up at […]

The Canadian poet, whose winning collection explores environmental and personal loss, discusses making art in existential timesEarly on in her latest collection, […]