LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 25 March 2021 A LONELY MAN by Chris Power (Faber £14.99, 320 pp) A LONELY MAN by Chris Power (Faber £14.99, 320 pp) Well-constructed spy stories about lost and lonely men are a rarity these days. … Read more
From Ericka Waller’s warm, affecting debut to Harvest by Georgina Harding, a passionate story by Imbolo Mbue and Paul Vidich’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 20 March 2021 Dog Days Ericka Waller … Read more
Amid the recent publicity blitz for his latest novel, Kazuo Ishiguro voiced fears that so-called ‘cancel culture’ had made younger novelists afraid to take imaginative risks
Edward St Aubyn’s first novel since Dunbar, his reimagining of King Lear, begins deep in the Sussex countryside, where biologist Francis is charged with the rewilding of a grand estate.
From Yaa Gyasi’s thoughtful novel to Dangerous Women by Hope Adams, a heavy-going tale by Edward St Aubyn and P. R. Black’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Max Davidson and John Williams Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 6 March … Read more
From Jane Smiley’s fanciful fable to Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding, a period thriller by Michael Farris Smith and Walter Mosley’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 February 2021 The Strays … Read more
There’s no shortage of advice on how buyers, sellers, renters and landlords can get the best out of the housing market. Conversations about property at dinner parties (remember those?) and programmes like Homes Under The Hammer and Location, Location, Location have made us all experts, or so we think. But are some of our certainties … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 25 February 2021 ACTS OF DESPERATION by Megan Nolan ACTS OF DESPERATION by Megan Nolan (Cape £14.99, 288 pp) (Cape £14.99, 288 pp) Should we be worried that so many exciting new female novelists write about … Read more
From Jess Walter’s rollicking historical novel to A Bright Ray Of Darkness by Ethan Hawke, a wise drama by Kate Russo and Elly Griffiths’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, … Read more
According to its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this fable was written to provide some much-needed distraction.