August 18, 2022• Books
William Boyd is the contemporary master of the ‘whole life novel’ – books that use a character’s entire lifetime to...
As with all non-fiction books, there is a subtitle – ‘How economics, evolution and technology drive us to deceive – and how...
May 30, 2022• Books
As I write, Apple is the second most valuable company in the world. A couple of weeks ago it was the most valuable, but many tech stocks...
March 7, 2022• Books
In 1996, I was on a mountain biking holiday in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. It was an organised trip with a small travel company and we...
December 25, 2021• Books
I should probably preface this review by saying that I know one of the Cavendish’s ghostwriters, Daniel Friebe. So make of that what...
The latest book from Michael Connelly feels as contemporary as anything he’s written recently. Connelly always says that his books...
In The Second Cut we revisit the world of Rilke, who readers first came across in Louise Welsh’s fantastic debut The Cutting Room. Rilke...
I’ll start by saying that I absolutely loved this novel set in the world of independent computer games from the 90s onwards. It took me a...
November 22, 2021• Books
On Saturday, I went for a nice long bike ride, and along the way listened to some podcasts including that morning’s new episode of...
September 21, 2021• Books
Alongside The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, this is probably the most important, and affecting novel that I’ll...
