Category Archives: Book News

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay | Book review

A lively account of the social circles of [...]

Andrew O’Hagan on fiction’s talking animals

From Achilles' horse to Lassie, animals provide moral [...]

Critical eye: book reviews roundup

Molotov's Magic Lantern, The Memory of Love and [...]

First fiction roundup

Catherine Taylor on Daniel O'Thunder by Ian Weir, [...]

Sue Arnold’s audiobook choice: Irish myth and drama

Gods and Fighting Men: The Fianna, by Lady Gregory, [...]

Ten of the best visions of Heaven in literature

Aeneid by Virgil

We think of Heaven as up above, [...]

Marilyn Monroe book reveals film star’s DIY and cooking tips

Unseen diary entries show tragic Hollywood star's intellectual [...]

Podcast: Damon Galgut, Helen Simpson, the London Book Fair and the Orange prize

As the publishing industry begins to take stock of the wash-out that was this year's [...]

Philip K Dick’s visionary journals to be published

Exegesis, Dick's 'personal laboratory for philosophical inquiry' to [...]

Digested classic: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Arcturus foulsham, £6.99

Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, [...]

Catch the latest technology from the Literary Platform

An intriguing new site is bringing together the [...]

Why do so many women have depression?

Novelist Allison Pearson is the latest in a [...]