The Danish author Helle Helle’s They, published in the UK in a pin-sharp translation by Martin Aitken, charts the subtle and shifting bond between a teenage daughter and an ailing mother in prose... Read more »
The crime writer Val McDermid has revealed she was assigned a “sensitivity reader” to remove language that could cause offence from her earlier works. The Scottish author has sold more than 19m... Read more »
The Reader The book sat on the tablefor yearsbefore it opened to a pageexposed to lightfor the first time. In their new surroundingsthe words trembledshaking all meaningfrom their assembly,the reader unable to... Read more »