Great North Road is the latest offering from highly acclaimed British sci-fi author Peter F. Hamilton, released in the UK on the 27th of September. Set in the year 2142, this standalone novel explores a not-too-distant future, in which the Earth is connected to planets across the galaxy through a […]

  Madrid, 1990: an art-loving student comes across a mysterious “master” who aims to reveal to him the secrets hidden behind the paintings kept in the Museo del Prado. From Botticelli to Bosch, from Titian to Bruegel, the enigmatic master brings the classical interpretation of the works into question, venturing […]

‘The biggest challenge for any writer is to let people know that their book exists’… This is, in my opinion, an absolute must-buy for all aspiring young writers, such as myself, who are starting out on the ladder of the writing industry and their first work is, unless they are […]

On June 8th 2010 Christopher Hitchens was struck with a pain in his chest and thorax, a feeling so great that he was unable to move and one that even prompted the calling of the emergency services. After a range of tests Mr Hitchens and his wife, Carol Blue, learned […]

I’ve never been a fan of vampires. TV dramas and films are so saturated with them that the thought of reading a novel centred on the most famous vampire of all made me groan. Yet, with the possibility that I may be studying this novel at university in the near […]

Wait, I can explain. This post – (hopefully) unlike the books represented by the majority of literary agents who didn’t bother replying to me – took a little longer to get going due to an interminable prelude that negates action and thus fails to advance the story. (The irony probably […]

Neil Gaiman, writer extraordinaire with more awards to his name than the British Library has books, released a new novel earlier this week. This new book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is unlike any novel of his that has preceded it – it’s much more personal, much […]

Winner of the Booker Prize in 2011, it’s safe to say that I expected a lot from Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending. I hadn’t read a bad review of it, and since the novel is only 150 pages, I settled down to read it in a short amount […]