Helm is an atmospheric phenomenon. It is a wind, a breeze, a gale, a storm, a breath of air exhaled over the Pennines. It is also the title character: frivolous, excitable, curious. Helm has been a…

A picture says a thousand words. Julian, a French photographer, explores the derelict neighbourhoods of Gaza in search of a perfect shot, the sort that shows the tragedy of its people. It may be a …

Romeo and Juliette’s love story is timeless. El-Mohtar and Gladstone take it into the future, but not before they have established it in the past and the present, in fact, in multiple versions of t…

Frank Merlin and his team investigate the violent death of dr Dev Sinha, a consultant gynaecologist, a keen bridge player and all round respected Indian gentleman. Although his wife Gita is a patie…

“Lords of Uncreation” concludes The Final Architecture trilogy with the big bang you would expect at the beginning of the world, not its end. But this is exactly what you get in the convoluted and …

Going to Norway is the done thing. It’s on everyone’s bucket list. Norway’s fjord-ravaged coast is a must-see. So we went to take a look. We boarded the trusty ole Borealis ship of the Fred Olsen f…

There couldn’t be a better title for this book than Flesh. It is the naked skin, fat and sinew of a man’s life. Istvan is Hungarian, raised by his mother who lives in a run-of-the-mill post-communi…

Uneasy truce holds in the land of Mycenia when Dalia, Queen of Terrius, is assassinated. Instead of waging a war of retaliation on the neighbouring city of Eron, her successor dispatches a peace em…

A teenage boy, Hackle takes on a dare. Life isn’t kind to Hackle. He’s poor and his mother is seriously ill. But he is tempestuous and proud so once he decided, he won’t back out. The dare is to fi…

Thirty years on from the film that changed everything, the world premiere production of Trainspotting The Musical storms the West End stage.

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My father papered the walls of his studio in crisp white washi, covered in schools of Gyotaku: ink prints of fish he’d caught throughout his career. I probe the paper like I’m noodling for a bite until I fumble on the light switch. The LEDs mimic natural light–my father would accept no less. He dema

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Available from Amazon UK and Amazon US Jane and Cassandra Austen were the closest of sisters from early childhood. Cassandra was the most i...

It starts with a tic. One of them falls down to Earth from outer space and bites into Carole. In turn Carole bites into Booker, who in his turn gets his teeth into Carole’s husband, Shivansh. He do…

This isn’t the pensive and masculine R.N. Morris as we know him, and yet it is inimitably he in all his psychologically twisted complexity. Cover Story is a contemporary spy thriller with an ingeni…

In her second foray into Ancient Greece, Madeline Miller brings to life Circe: the enchantress from The Odyssey who turned Odysseus’s men into pigs. She was an immortal descendant of ancient titans…

Jennifer Buckley’s exciting monograph seeks to develop a study of the eighteenth-century periodical, particularly what she defines as the ‘essay-periodical

Today I’m joining the blog tour for Catherine. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to Orenda Books for my copy of the book. Blurb: With a nature as …

Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl&#8…