The chief literary critic of The Times recently described Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (the cover is shown on the home page) as a novel ...

First things first. The author would insist this is not fiction. Others would agree and call it hogwash, but while the jacket blurb to this book by Na...

The 16th fiction book published by Sebastian Faulks landed in bookstores last month. When I say “fiction book”, that is not a unanimous vi...

(…with titular apologies to the Doors, New York City and Missouri) Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night comedy show called The Night O...

The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize was Damon Galgut, a white South African writer whose book, The Promise (the cover is shown on the home page), is a...

This book is a tribute act of sorts. The first sentence of Erin Kelly’s author’s note to The Skeleton Key reads: “When I was a child...

After a gap of over 10 years since her previous book, Monica Ali has produced her fifth novel. Love Marriage (see the cover on the home page) is a vib...

Dick Francis published his first novel in 1962. It was called Dead Cert and its background reflected a livelihood its author knew so well. Horse racin...

This blog is about two authors whose final novels were recently published on the same day (October 14), and published posthumously – John Le Car...