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 Write about what you know. Isn’t that what we’re always told? Your own experience. I think it was Mark Twain who first put the notion out t...

  I wasn’t surprised to find that this author originally trained as a structural engineer. There is something so meticulous, measured and st...

  In many ways, this is like reading an in depth episode of Who Do You Think You Are instead of watching it. Although the detail is such tha...

  So impressed, was I with the quality of the writing in Fiona McFarlane’s shortlisted, Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize novel The Sun ...

 Several years ago, when I was clearing my late mother’s house, I came across a small card, detailing an unknown relative’s interment in a l...

This could be a Marmite book for many. It’s quite extraordinary and defies comparison. Fleetingly I thought of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas ...

 There is a haunting quality to this deceptively slender novel that tells the story of Teha’amana, the muse of Paul Gauguin during his Tahit...