Published in 1999, Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution (the cover is shown on the home page) received widespread critical acclaim, in the Uni...
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You may have heard that Tiger Woods won a golf tournament yesterday. A sentence that used to be almost as routine as remarking that the sun had come u...
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Britain’s newest star of track and field is on the cover of this week’s Evening Standard magazine. Dina Asher-Smith won three gold medals...
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This is a clever book but not to the extent that it’s too clever by half. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (the jacket is shown on the ...
Read MoreFICTION: Swanning around to malevolent effect
St Tropez is surely one of the most glamorous places on the French Riviera. A military stronghold and fairly ordinary fishing village until the begin...
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