Rachel Clarke, author and physician I’ve just mainlined Rebecca Solnit’s latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There, in two sittings. It’s such a stirring, sinewy antidote to despair that... Read more »
Charlotte Wood, author Lioness, the latest from New Zealander Emily Perkins, is about social aspiration and the traps lying in wait for women when money and marriage menacingly collide. Perkins is one... Read more »
Matt Lloyd-Rose, author Having worked as a carer, primary school teacher and volunteer police officer, I’m always on the lookout for literary non-fiction that explores big social questions: searing, lyrical books like... Read more »