Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Reviews and Recommended Reading

Germaine Greer breaks cover on tryst with Federico Fellini
April 12, 2010

Academic reveals 1975 liaison with director who arrived [...]

Letter: Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth
April 11, 2010

We hope that the winners of the 2010

Literary critics scan the brain to find out why we love to read
April 11, 2010

'Neuro lit crit' is the study of how [...]

Once upon a life: Abraham Verghese
April 10, 2010

He was a young medical student in Ethiopia [...]

This much I know: Robert Harris
April 10, 2010

The novelist, 53, on Polanski, his Hitler house, [...]

All That Follows by Jim Crace | Book review
April 10, 2010

For his latest novel, Jim Crace has bravely [...]

Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock’n’Roll Movies by Garry Mulholland | Book review
April 10, 2010

This light-hearted riff on 100 rock'n'roll movies is [...]

Debut fiction | Book reviews
April 10, 2010

A revenge fantasy, a little boy lost and [...]

Family Album by Penelope Lively and The Long Song by Andrea Levy
April 9, 2010

Family Album, by Penelope Lively, read by Anna Bentinck [...]

Ten of the best lotharios in literature
April 9, 2010

Dom Juan Molière's ladies' man, based on the legendary [...]

Critical eye: book reviews roundup
April 9, 2010

Burying the Bones by Hilary Spurling, The Good [...]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Sara Paretsky
April 9, 2010

The Angel in the House, which has flapped its [...]