A fool on a hill

  These are times such as I never expected to see. I've written several books set during the second world war; I've listened to the ...

(This review first appeared on Writers Review at the end of February.) One of the joys of Christmas is that, in my family, we’re very big o...

  A couple of months ago, a friend put me onto a detective series by a writer I hadn't heard of, Louise Penny. They're set in Canada...

 I first came across Elif Shafak when I was listening to an online talk last year from the Hay Festival. She was on a panel with Philippe Sa...

 I've just read that Kathleen Jamie has been named as the new makar (national poet) for Scotland. I met Kathleen a couple of years ago o...

You can probably just about see from this picture that this is a well-worn book. You'll see it even better from the picture below: one p...

  The first thing to be said about this book is that it is very, very beautiful. The photograph doesn't actually do it justice: the cove...