Books & Poetry

It’s February 19, 2005 – the day hunting with hounds is officially banned in the UK – and at the Wiltshire mansion of the waning Domeyne family, a party is gathering. Tomorrow it...

‘Sacrifices’, Michael Fishwick’s second novel, is perfect book-club fodder – but don’t let that put you off. It’s just that it belongs very much to that category...

With ‘The Long Firm’ adapted for TV (and nominated for seven BAFTAs, no less), it’s fair to say that expectation hangs heavy over Jake Arnott’s first departure from crime...

From the man who gave us the screenplays for ‘Amores Perros’ (2000) and ‘21 Grams’ (2003) it would be reasonable to expect something pretty special, but here Guillermo...

Art historians have argued long and hard about the true meaning of Titian’s ‘The Venus of Urbino’, an enigmatic, and highly sexualised, painting of a beautiful young woman lying...

This is a very handy item to have in your pocket – or on a noticeboard at home. Although it’s intended for children I suspect it could have a wider appeal among cartographically...

Fiona Danks’ background is in environmental education, Jo Schofield’s is in commercial photography; what they share is a passion for exploring wild places and a conviction that children...

‘I had no idea how to write a novel,’ says Jane Harris, ‘and after about 15,000 words it ground to a halt. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I stuck it away in a...

‘Do you remember what it was like to be 14?’ asks the book jacket of Tania Unsworth’s tale of female adolescence. For those who do, and do so with that clarity of memory which now...

This book doesn’t live up to its title, but what a title that is. In the title story of this collection, the narrator, himself a writer, steals it from Yakup, a waiter in a Turkish bar who...