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If you want a cosy story that takes you out of your day-to-day existence, Pat Barker's Union Street is definitely not for you. It cont...

The thing about Richard Hannay, protagonist of The Thirty-Nine Steps , is that he's bored. " I was tired of seeing sights, and in ...

The Abbess of Crewe is about the political manoeuvering of Alexandra, who has recently been elected as the head of the Abbey of Crewe. In ...

The Vet's Daughter is a curious, gothic, magical tale. It follows the adolescent Alice Rowlands, as her mother becomes ill, dies and i...

Graham Greene " was commissioned to write a book on the religious situation " in Mexico in 1938, which resulted in The Lawless Ro...

There's no hanging around waiting for things to happen in The Fog . James Herbert has disaster strike at the end of the first chapter a...

It's difficult to read Luke Jennings's Codename Villanelle without imagining the Killing Eve TV series (see trailer below), but he...