Category: Review

The grass is supposed to be greener on the other side of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Joe Lampton moving from his hometown of Dufton, still bearing the

It’s a beautiful day in the park high above the city and far from its urban sprawl, the fresh air and the open sky, the sound of photogenic

Set upon by bandits who have stolen his horse and his belongings, the Marquis Jacques Antoine Saturnin d’Urfé, diplomatic envoy of the King of France, wanders the forest

It has long been a tool of writers to cloak a difficult truth in fiction, to slip past censors alert to sensitive topics, to avoid litigation, or to

Life does not offer much opportunity in the Westfjords in the north of Iceland, a grim stretch of land where the cold seas batter against the rock shore

An old man sits in his garden, wishing to be undisturbed, to enjoy the sunshine and the shade and the serenity of growing things which place no demands

Getting older is no joke for Ann, affectionately known as “the G” by Emma, though affection is not a term most would associate with Ann, the accumulation of

It is an unusual confession for a priest, that he intends to commit all the sin that he can, but Father Ángel Berriartúa is an unusual man, a

It’s another bad day in the Glitter Band, and although with 10,000 habitats to supervise it’s always going to be a bad day somewhere, this is worse: a

London, 1955, a grey morning over Trafalgar Square as the pigeons gather, but by the time the markets of the East End are bustling the sun is fully