The key advisor to the American President has just been murdered in Cairo, there are no witnesses, no motive – the last word heard was FIREBIRD. Sammy Rashid is assigned the hopeless task of finding Adam Ibram’s killers, the case has political implications
When Carlo Wolff opened his review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven with the words “How many ways can you define ‘superficial’?” he had no idea what he started. You see, Wolff was a freelance journalist commissioned
This is the story of postwar Japan, as seen through the eyes of Masuji Ono, a retired artist. Ono is proud of his rise to a man of stature and influence in pre-war Japan. He recounts his struggle to become a famous artist; through
Evie Kinsella has a hectic life. Single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Holly and working in a job she loathes to support them both, a visit to her friend Monique in France is just what the doctor ordered. Envisaging a week of fun and no responsibility
British organic and Fairtrade food chain Fresh and Wild teamed up with organic expert Ysanne Spevack, editor of online organic food magazine organicfood.co.uk, to produce this cookbook. It’s both worthy and worthwhile, but sometimes Spevack’s
I have to begin by pinning my colours to the mast: I am a big fan of Frida Kahlo’s art, I am fascinated by the story of her life and I loved the 2003 biopic starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina. Not surprisingly then I approached this
Jack Reacher is an ex-military cop who, ever since leaving the army, has drifted from one place to the next with no fixed abode, no main purpose and no destination. He is a dyed in the wool American hero, battle-hardened, footloose, sexy and compassionate, and the last
Kelpie is struggling against the elements. Battling against wind and rain he manages to defy nature and reach the shore with his precious cargo intact. Ashley Naughton leaves Tempest, a popular Dublin nightspot run by Vinnie York. Although she somehow
The Electric Michelangelo is Sarah Hall’s second novel and was a Booker short-listed novel in 2004. Her first, Haweswater, won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Betty Trask Award and the Lakeland Book Prize for Arts
‘Fire smoulders, it burns, it rages, it purges and purifies; it engenders great passion and it destroys. You were named for fire, Ellen Rua.’ Widowed during the Great Irish Famine, Ellen ‘Rua’ O’Malley escapes to Boston
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