Last month a very good friend of mine, Annie Chave, published her first book, Cricket Changed My Life, which has been very well...

When the journalist, Rebecca West, published her first novel in 1918, it was dismissed by critics as a ‘woman’s’ book and too ‘feminine’....

My book group has just read Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien. Published in 1969, it is the first in the twenty-book series set in...