Cabbie Monaco

In Black Swan Green David Mitchell has brilliantly recreated the struggles of a teenage boy who's trying to make sense of the world. ...

What a pleasure to revisit Ely and the Fens of eastern England in Jim Kelly's crime mystery novel Nightrise . It's a couple of yea...

Driving back from visiting a wealthy client in the south of England, Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and finds himself at the gate of a deser...

Here's one thing I liked about Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing . It's a vivid description of the onset of a storm: ...

Hannah Mitchell describes herself as a " very ordinary woman " in her autobiography The Hard Way Up . The fact that she's ma...

Last year I reviewed John Cooper Clarke's Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt . I supposed that working class poets from the North West ...

I woke up to the sad news that Michael Collins had died. Five years ago the Apollo 11 astronaut inspired the first story I wrote that I was...