The Nicci French oeuvre runs to 18 psychological thrillers, beginning with The Memory Game in 1997 and most recently including Saturday Requiem, publi...

The most famous work of J.G. Ballard, who died aged 78 in 2009, is very possibly Empire of the Sun, a vividly autobiographical novel set in the Far E...

The last feature in this category was about a book called Number 11. This one is about No. 10 – more specifically, the soon-to-be inhabitants o...

On page 231 of Number 11 is George Osborne’s (in)famous line to the Conservative Party Conference in 2009: “We are all in this together.&#...

The much-acclaimed author, Julian Barnes, won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for his novel The Sense of an Ending, which – for what it’s wor...

It’s down to individual opinion, of course, but there are some celebrities who are distinctly more annoying than others. However (says he, des...

There is nothing Inspector Salvo Montalbano dislikes more than people who want to talk to him while he’s enjoying a meal. Frankly, an unsolved c...