Cabbie Monaco

This week saw yet another report of university students banning a speaker for remarks made during a debate. It was a perfect opportunity f...

I'd come across Bernardine Evaristo's 2001 book, The Emperor's Babe , in a search for fiction based in Roman times. It had won...

Tu Montreras Ma Tete Au Peuple is a gem of a book, but as yet only available in French, the language of its author François-Henri Désérab...

If you want something done, do it yourself. After " forty years of neoliberalism having gone unchecked and unchallenged " in the...

Is the The Swans of Fifth Avenue a fairytale? In the Preface Melanie Benjamin describes the eponymous swans as if they really are talking...

Oh dear! This is the first book I've seriously considered not finishing, yet it started so well. Allan Karlsson, never " given to...

Hamnet is the name of Shakespeare's son who died aged 11, but the book is not really about him, it's about his mother Anne, or Ag...