Is the Easter bunny real? Can chocolate make you smarter? This pile of books may not give you the answers, but it will give you some great reading as our Easter giveaways continue. To go in the draw for this bundle of books, simply email your name...
Nothing goes better with Easter eggs than a pile of good books, and we’re giving away a pile of good books every day between now and Good Friday. To go in the draw to win this first pack, simply email your name and address to...
Part of the pleasure of reading (or being read to, in my case) is revisiting something with renewed enjoyment or perhaps beneficially changing one’s mind. I experienced both of these pleasures on re-encountering Olivia Manning’s The Balkan Trilogy...
Ruth Quibell’s The Promise of Things offers a pathway to ‘an intelligent life with things’. We’re surrounded by things. Our own things, other people’s things, necessary things, beloved things, things we cannot wait to be rid of....
Part history lesson, part social exploration, the Sean Duffy series from Irish-Australian writer Adrian McKinty is required crime fiction reading. The Sean Duffy series was originally intended to be a trilogy, not surprisingly, given...
‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is a question often put to authors, especially crime writers. When I was busy at the trade I tended to fob it off with answers about my imagination and picking up on things I’d overheard when I was a...
