Book Reviews

Sarah Pinborough: Five books everyone should read before they die

Sarah Pinborough, the author of crime chiller Mayhem, picks her must-read reads

Risky business

Doug Johnstone reviews Alan Glynn's Graveland and Gabriel Weston's Dirty Work

Blinding tartan noir

Doug Johnstone reviews Laidlaw by William McIlvanney and Laura Lippman's And When She Was Good

Winning the war against AIDS

There's A Bug Going Around by Robert Silman and Steven Froelich details one of the most shameful scientific scandals ever

Jeff Norton: Five books every child should read before they're 12

Jeff Norton

MetaWars author Jeff Norton selects his essential reading list for kids...

Ian Pattinson: Five books everyone should read before they die

Ian Pattinson

Unhappy-Go-Lucky author Ian Pattinson shares his essential reading list...

Sea change

Doug Johnstone reviews James Salter's All That Is and Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Man In Love

Gill Lewis: Five books every child should read before they’re 12

Gill Lewis

"The wonderful characters include the creepy uncle whose hobby is collecting glass eyes"

Thomas Quinn on the American supermoms making medical history

"Kristine changed her son’s life. Perhaps she changed his brain – or at least allowed it to evolve in the way it was meant to"

Gordon Ferris: 5 books everyone should read before they die

Gordon Ferris

Author Gordon Ferris picks five essential reads: "Be warned: read this book and be prepared to read the next 19!"

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