Category: Fiction

Booker Prize winners often see their careers transformed and the accolade now receives international recognition. Here we take a brief…

Literature in the 20th century saw the creation of what are often considered to be some of the best books…

Known only by devotees of pulp fiction and Weird Tales magazine during his lifetime, HP Lovecraft is now recognized as…

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s father was a retired army surgeon who envisaged a military career for his son, but very soon after…

The enormous popularity of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club and the BBC’s adaptation of Robert Thorogood’s Death in Paradise series…

One of Ann Cleeves’ most popular characters, Vera Stanhope came into being almost by accident. The first novel in which…

Suspicious deaths in small villages, locked-room mysteries, fatalities at glamorous parties held in a country manor – the golden age…

Encouraging readers to explore fiction outside the parameters of what is usually taught and promoted, the works discussed in this…

‘I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year and I expect to go out…

William Thackeray’s formidable classic Vanity Fair is a book I constantly find myself returning to. It follows the life of…