For my holiday reading I chose Robert Harris’ novel The Second Sleep (2019), because it sounded very intriguing. The novel opens with a...

Writing nearly a century after the publication of Josephine Tey’s Kif, (last blog), Kate Atkinson shifts the focus in her recent novel...

I'm fascinated by the way that the First World War was understood in the 1920s by the people who had lived through it. The way we think...