Book Reviews

Reviewed this month: A Grave in the Woods by Martin Walker, D is for Death by Harriet F Townson, All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker and What...

Elwood, the son of a minister, feels he has arrived when he finds himself among Yoko Ono, Donald Trump and Barbara Walters at a Christmas party in 2008 hosted by...

THIS book might come as a shock to the British Janeite. Juliette Wells, Professor of Literary Studies at Groucher College, Baltimore, is a recognised scholar and fan who bridges the...

Dear readers,This dates me, I guess, but I don’t like to leave the house without a physical book. It makes me very anxious to be stranded without reading material —...

New books available now. Photos / supplied Book reviews: Can you really summarise a giant continent in 463 pages? Zeinab Badawi, a Sudanese-British journalist, travelled to more than 30 countries...

Open this photo in gallery:Summer is when we tend to spend more time lounging in the shade and flipping through cookbooks. Not only will these new books inspire you to...

One is so used to hearing of the virtues of storytelling and the transformative power of fiction that it comes as a surprise to open a collection of essays entitled...

THE MATERIAL, by Camille BordasEveryone’s a critic — and now, it seems, a comedian too. Actual one-liners are what flourish on the platform now known with titanium self-seriousness as X....

For a band known for its blisteringly live shows and its dark, heavy-as-lead sound, Lamb Of God co-founder and guitarist Mark Morton comes across remarkably vulnerable in his wildly compelling...