Cabbie Monaco

The blurb for Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep didn't really sell the book. It was instead a positive discussion on a podcast tha...

Ian Robinson's The Town that Vanished uses the Mass Observation Worktown investigation of the late 1930s " as a frame of referenc...

Francesca Kay's The Long Room is a story about the loneliness and obsessions of a spy, the sort of spy whose life is dull, drab and te...

Arthur Johnson has a secret that he keeps in the cellar of 142 Trinity Road, Kenbourne, where Ruth Rendell's A Demon in My View is set...

I should state up front that this review will be somewhat biased. John Cooper Clarke, aka the Bard of Salford, was born and raised in the i...

" What is history, and where does it take place? " Sebastian Haffner's book isn't concerned with the type of history we l...

Some people like to lie on a beach and do nothing on holiday. Robert, the English protagonist of Lawrence Osborne's Hunters in the Dark...