Teenage fiction for Easter | Book review

Murder and occultism dominate, including the latest from [...]

Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald | Audiobook review

Read by Trevor White

On the 1920s Riviera the [...]

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman | Book review

Philip Pullman's reimagining of the New Testament is [...]

The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle

The final part of Roddy Doyle's trilogy plays [...]

Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck’s Life in China by Hilary Spurling

Isabel Hilton celebrates the life of an extraordinary [...]

Critical eye: book reviews roundup

James Shapiro's Contested Will, Roddy Doyle's The Dead [...]

The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui

John Gittings welcomes two books that articulate China's [...]

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson | The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shower by Robert Graysmith

Peter Bradshaw peeks at the strange legacy of [...]

Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review

Susan Fletcher's novel of the Jacobite rebellion makes [...]

Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review

Simon Callow searches for facts among the fantasies

The [...]

Sue Arnold on science audiobooks

The History of Science, written and read by Peter [...]

The sound of the suburbs and literary tradition

The Kinks, the Jam, Blur, Arctic Monkeys – [...]