Cabbie Monaco

"How can you call yourself working class when you live on the French Riviera?" Good question, and one I've been asked several...

An American Marriage is an odd title for this book by Tayari Jones. True, it's set in America and it follows what happens to a married...

I had high expectations for The Siege of Krishnapur , perhaps too high. JG Farrell's book is a fictionalised account of the 1857 Indian...

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...