20th September 2009:

AMY works as a waitress in a not very smart east London restaurant. One night, in Eyes On You by Adele Parks (HQ, £16.99), a handsome, posh City boy is dining there and she, rather determinedly, persu...

25th August 1621:

16th August 1838:

STUCK on a Tube train in a record heatwave, during a pandemic, in a city being tangibly ruined “by the corrupt incompetence of the parasites in power,” doesn't sound much fun to begin with. The Burn L...

Rebel Britannia Vol 1 by Mat Coward

9th August 1882:

1st August 2005:

31st July 1963:

16th July 1981:

WHEN I first wrote about saffron in this column, the bulbs (strictly speaking they’re corms) weren’t so easy to get hold of. These days you can find them readily online. Since that was really the only...

9th July 1825:

5th July 1856:

AFTER waiting more than 30 years to hear news of her missing sister, Jess has finally received the call she’s always dreaded, in The Gardens by Emma Babbington (HQ, £9.99). The police have found human...

6th June 1944:

JANE HARPER’s latest small-town-Australia mystery, Last One Out (Macmillan, £20), unfolds in a community undergoing the last rites. Carralon was once a thriving, self-reliant place, where neighbours l...

20th May 1761:

18th May 1937:

I SUPPOSE the definition of a liberal in 2026 is someone who looks at what’s happening in the United States, tuts, and then goes back to worrying about Russia.

9th May 1671:

20th April 1768:

15th April 1937:

THE most anticipated crime novel ever is unavoidably delayed when the author dies halfway through completing the denouement, in The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (HQ, £16.99). Publishers’ care...

25th March 1901:

March 22nd 2022:

FOR all the futurism of their reading preference, science fiction fans can be a nostalgic lot and the phrase “Do you remember when SF used to be fun?” is often heard in their gatherings. A solid answe...

9th March 1959:

HAMBURG parsley is not widely grown in the UK, rarely seen on sale as a vegetable, and doesn’t even appear in most gardening books. The seeds are offered by most seed catalogues, though, so if you fan...

A NORTHUMBERLAND gang boss comes out of prison a changed man, in The Dark Heart by Neil Lancaster (HQ, £16.99). Unfortunately, it’s not a change for the better: he’s been radicalised by a white suprem...

3rd March 1961:

20th February 1977:

15th February 2019:

10th February 1972:

I’M always reluctant to describe a crime novel as unique, because surely after all this time there’s nothing new under the genre’s sun? But I will say that I’ve never seen the plot of The Ark by Haruo...

23rd January 1878:

“WHO are you prioritising?” Chris Murphy, the Democratic Senator from Connecticut, asked US immigration enforcement officers during a recent visit to an immigration court in San Antonio, Texas. Murphy...

16th January 1749: