Reviews

This meticulously researched book brings to the reader a different focus to The Great War and the first major loss of US troops at sea.

Darkly comic look at the hardships of divorce, badgers and depression.

Rich characters and intricate settings bolster this contemporary gothic mystery.

Too many formal details slow an otherwise comic mission back in time by one of Miss Jean Brodie’s now-grown-up students.

Tom Hazard has been alive for centuries and so knows better than most that we should appreciate every moment.

Beautiful, melancholy, and deliberate writing that examines humanity at its dying moments and its struggle for redemption.

Sex, drugs, and gruesome violence in 1973 Glasgow are all in store for readers of the newest voice in Scottish crime fiction.

A simple, easy-to-read guide to sorting heirlooms from junk before you die.

New feminist publisher’s anthology of personal essays makes a shrewd, entertaining, and educational response to bi-erasure.

We should all be prescribed an Ali Smith a week these days.

Helen Sedgwick asks questions about technology, gender, and childbirth in her latest novel.

A story of Rolling Stone magazine’s tussle between music and mammon.

New book asks why has the digital age not liberated creativity as it once promised?

Unrevelatory rock memoir from scion of Dad’s Army star

Michael Shand’s debut about an Edinburgh gang is a ride of a read.