Cabbie Monaco

Annie Fairhurst wants to start a new life. When A Kind of Intimacy opens, she is dancing naked around the home she is leaving, kicking the...

" The truth is a tricky issue, " asserts prosecuting barrister Kate Woodcroft QC, at the beginning of Anatomy of a Scandal . Afte...

A stick of Brighton rock is sickly sweet, often pink, and so hard it can break your teeth. It's a perfect metaphor for Pinkie Brown, t...

The God of Small Things opens with the return of Rahel to her childhood home in Ayemenem, in the south-west of India and to her twin broth...

Moonfleet is a cracking good children's adventure story with a moral. It begins with John Trenchard, aged 15, inspired by a story of b...

" Regretting is always pointless, since there is no undoing ". So says Claudia Hampton as she lies dying in a hospital bed. She h...

An Awfully Big Adventure opens with a mystery. A girl, who we soon discover is Stella Bradshaw, insists she's " not the only one...