Known as the Godfather of Faction for seamlessly integrating real people into his fictional plots, Frederick Forsyth is the author of a series of polished, well-researched and compelling thrillers from his 1971 best-seller The Day Of The Jackal – which was
Oscar Wilde said: “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction”. For Lucy Grealy, the former is true and the latter is possibly the reason why she was a writer at all. This IS an autobiography, but focuses
It has been an interesting year for fans of the nineteenth century writer Henry James. The literary giant has put in an appearance in three novels – Colm Tóibín’s Booker Prize-nominated The Master, Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty –
Andie and her sister Jin are chalk and cheese. They’ve never really seen eye to eye and while Jin is married to a very wealthy businessman, Andie is happy with her career as a music teacher. When their mother Cora comes back from a Caribbean
Angels and Demons is the prequel to the popular novel The Da Vinci Code. Like many people, I read this after The Da Vinci Code. However, it probably would have been a better idea to have read Angels and Demons first. The book introduces us to Harvard symbologist
This is the first book McEwan won the Booker prize for (Atonement being the second) and it’s a short but gripping tale. It concerns an ambitious journalist and his composer best friend. They are as opposite as they are similar but when a row over a potentially explosive
Akin to watching a black and white film, Cesare Pavese’s Among Women Only is filled with lingering moments and dramatic scenes that are occasionally punctuated with philosophic dialogue. Set in post war Italy, location Turin, the novel is based around
He has his detractors but this is probably Amis’ best book. It concerns the degenerate hedonism of an English film-maker trying to make it big in the Big Apple. He reels from one social blunder and pointless one-night stand to another in a haze of booze and drugs
47-year-old May, married to Clem for 27 years with six sons, wakes up one morning to discover her husband’s secret activities have left her facing threats of eviction and poverty. As if her life wasn’t hectic enough – dealing with her eccentric
Seven Types of Ambiguity is the third book from award-winning Australian writer Elliot Perlman. Published to critical acclaim in his native land, it has been compared with Jonathan Franzen’s successful and similarly wide-ranging The Corrections.
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