In the Kolkata of Megha Majumdar’s gripping second novel, set over seven days in an unspecified ‘ruined year’, restaurants ...

Madeleine Gray’s first novel, Green Dot (2023), was a witty account of a messy office affair, whose fans included ...

Of course, the study of friction is nothing new; and to explain the 20th-century crisis, and to understand where tribology may yet take us, we must first understand how we got here. So begins Vail’s ...

Growing up in the 1960s at 288a Main Road on the outskirts of Northampton, Mark Haddon spent hours alone in the bathroom, the ...

Harman develops his theme through diverting chapters on historiography (featuring an excursus on why Mongolian warlords gave ...

Our appetite for true crime is nothing new. The Victorians devoured it and, as Lottie Moggach’s fourth novel shows, ...

Northern Italians sometimes speak of Sicily as the place where Europe finally ends. The island was conquered in the ...

The courage of women dropped into Nazi-occupied Europe in order to work for Special Operations Executive (SOE), was immense.

Publicly embarrassed, Morès took himself off to Algeria and set about planting an unsanctioned French flag further and further into the Sahara, where he and his small party came to grief at last, ...

Glyph (whose sibling, Gliff, was published last year) is Ali Smith’s 14th novel and her fifth since 2016, when ...