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Sunday, August 31, 2014

How to write the perfect crime story

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Niall Leonard shares some chilling writer's tips for wannabe crime writers. The devil is in the detail Continue reading...

Into the Woods by Lyn Gardner review

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'If you enjoy a story full of adventure, creatures (including the odd scary ghost or skeleton) from other worlds and secrecy that leave ...

Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love review wide of the mark

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Except when dealing with the poetry itself, James Booth's biography of Philip Larkin reaches some muddled conclusions Continue reading.....

Vincent Deary: 'Are you living the life you want to lead?'

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That was the question that one 40-year-old NHS psychotherapist answered by changing his own life in order to write a book that could change ...

How to be Both by Ali Smith, review: 'brimming with pain and joy'

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In How to be Both, Ali Smith continues to reinvent the novel, subtly but surely, says Patrick Flanery via Books and Author Interviews ht...

Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 my notebook is still full of ideas'

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In Ian McEwan's book The Children Act, a high court judge must decide whether a teenage boy lives or dies. In his own life, the novelist...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Under a Mackerel Sky by Rick Stein review raw memoir lays the chef bare

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Rick Stein's memoir is full of revelations, but only about himself Continue reading...

We Live in Water review Jess Walter's bleak but sympathetic short stories

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These tales of male frustration, addiction and failure in north-western US cities are unsparing but insightful Continue reading...

The Emperor Far Away review an ambitious guide to China's far-flung corners

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David Eimer's tour of the Chinese provinces is a reminder that there is much more to the country than its Pacific seaboard Continue read...