The dark hull of a shipwreck, beached and rotting on the sand, provides the powerful symbolism in award-winning poet and author Susannah Dickey’s third novel Into the Wreck. Five members of a... Read more »
‘There is no good way to say this.” This is the phrase used by police when visiting the Chinese-American author Yiyun Li – twice. On the first occasion, officers advise her and... Read more »
It is coming up to 12 years since the publication of H Is for Hawk, about the historian, writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald’s time spent training a Eurasian goshawk after an intense... Read more »
Steeped in ancient tradition, elegies transform raw grief into timeless poetry, but their power to heal remains a beautiful mystery. Read more »
What to expect from Lisa Marie Presleyâs memoir? Some sanitised, cagey reminiscences, dutifully studded with anecdotes about her father, Elvis, the king of rockânâroll, who died aged 42 in 1977? Instead, itâs... Read more »
You could see Peaceâs new book as his third in a series of novels centred on football bosses â the Manageriad? â after The Damned Utd (about Brian Clough) and Red or... Read more »
Oleksandr Mykhed and his wife Olena lost their home when the Russians invaded Ukraine. Before February 2022 he had never held a gun in his hands. But a week before the invasion,... Read more »
When it comes to grief, a list of a thousand books wouldn’t be enough. This small selection is offered in the hope that it might contain something that provides solace – or... Read more »