BOOKPHACE

Do you believe in the mystical, the fantastical, the improbable, or the impossible? Do you believe that things others dismiss as dreams and...

This year has seen no shortage of novels inspired by the Greek legends, Madeline Miller’s Circe and Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls spr...

Always a tricky one. So hard to limit myself to a mere ten books. But I did it last year and I’ll do it again this year but I will reiterat...

As an estuary dweller and the daughter of a Londoner the River Thames is a part of me. Just gazing out across at it and smelling the cock...

As time marches relentlessly on and refuses to allow me to slow this hideous ageing process down I approach the festive season with feeling...

‘I be the sea. I am. I be. You will never tame me. You, with your silly pieces of plastic, letting them sink and float and dance on my wa...

It was neither a warm day nor a cold one. It was neither bright nor gloomy. She wore her school gabardine raincoat. With a hood. She loathe...