Cabbie Monaco

It was the setting of Philip Kerr's March Violets that appealed to me: 1936, Berlin, Germany. Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther narr...

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk is both the title of David Sedaris's book and one of its animal tales. Few humans appear in the stories, and w...

We're all going to die but most of us don't know when, unlike the characters in Nevil Shute's book On the Beach . The story tak...

Jonathan Dee's The Privileges is less a story, more a character study of a family. It's divided into four parts. In part one, we j...

David Nobbs's Reggie Perrin is " a man who had given his best years to puddings, " and wonders in his mid-forties what the po...

The Seraphim Room by Edith Olivier is a story driven by the character of Mr Chilvester, twice widowed, and living with his two daughters:...

First there was "Sinatramania", then there was Elvis, and in the 60s it was The Beatles. When I was ten years old, I passionately...