Books & Poetry

No prizes for guessing the mood of this character from Faces by Jan Pienkowski the prolific Polish- born British author and illustrator responsible for the books featuring Meg the Witch and Mog,...

Famous parents (Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann) aside, Norwegian author and former child actress Linn Ullmann is perhaps best known on these shores for her highly acclaimed 2001 novel,...

Alan Furst’s ‘The Spies of Warsaw’ is not a spy novel. Set in the espionage-filled world of diplomatic Warsaw just prior to World War II, the book is more history than mystery....

This sweet, unpredictable novel is fun to read and quietly undemanding. Dixon’s writing has a good comic assurance and he adroitly conjures all manner of strangeness in his tale of an elite,...

Ed Lister had it all – wealth, a luxurious lifestyle and a loving wife and kids. But then his daughter Sophie is murdered while studying art in Florence. When the Italian police fail to find...

Traditionally, the pop charts have not been home to many hunchbacks. In fact, with the exception of Quasimodo’s experimental ‘bell’period, the affliction of permanently arched...

With the publication of this witty collection of anecdotes from the Big Apple, feted literary publicist Sloane Crosley crosses the author/publisher divide with tales ofher upbringing in...

Chris Cleave’s debut novel, about a terrorist attack onLondon, was published at an horrifically incongruousmoment, on the day of the July 7 bombings. His second, ‘The Other Hand’,...

New York author Paul Auster’s last major novel, ‘Brooklyn Follies’, was a disappointing, mortal affair from a writer capable of such cloud-busting highs as ‘Moon...