A walk through books

In a nod to the nineteenth-century narrative tradition that it seems to have been plucked from, Hensher’s latest novel can be dubbed both a...

Poetry is a thoroughly different beast to prose, and consequently deserves to be read in a thoroughly different way. My preferred method, an...

As a long-time fan of Scottish fiction, I looked forward to delving into Torrington’s Whitbread winner with relish. Written in the Scots de...

Reading relies, more than we often realise, on word associations. Particularly adjectivally, words can gather or lose a lot of flavour ...

Crime writing has always struck me as little more than writing by numbers. The essential frame is laid out and the author has to do little ...

Reading drama is a thoroughly different experience to reading prose or poetry. From the more ‘real time’ feel of it, to the fact that it’s e...

‘The great American novel’ (TGAN) is a phrase that both inspired and plagued the ‘great American’ authors of the 20th century. Saul Bellow...