In The Last Juror, Grisham returns to Ford County for the first time since A Time to Kill. The beauty of A Time to Kill and A Painted House – his best book by far – was that Grisham took the time to develop characters living in the richly evoked and described
When Anita Shreve’s ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 1999, it propelled her onto numerous literary top ten lists. This gargantuan publicity injection made the publishers happy but such high-profile
Sophie Flanagan is on a plane home to Ireland, leaving behind her perfect New England lifestyle, her high-powered job and the man who broke her heart. Although life is pretty bleak, Sophie is glad to be returning home to a life of stability Isobel Kearney is
Although already the author of two well-received memoirs – Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour – as well as a couple of not so popular detective novels, it’s only now that American chef Anthony Bourdain has got around to writing
A flirtatious fable of fabulous food, Les Liaisons Culinaires is every foodie’s dream. The slight tale is little more than a framework on which Greek author Andreas Staïkos hangs evocative and sensuous descriptions of food, the recipes
Set in London during the late eighteenth century and with the French Revolution as its bloody and passionate backdrop, Life Mask tells the tale of three women caught in a kind of love triangle. Donoghue’s fourth novel is formed around a fictional recreation
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies would be one to recommend. This book flew of the shelf and into my hand on the wings of its stunning title. Later, I was pleased to find that as the pages
Switters is a walking contradiction; he is a CIA agent who hates the American Government, a pacifist who carries a gun and a vegetarian who loves gravy. Obsessed with innocence, the latest object of his affection is his 16-year-old stepsister
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