As an artist Florine Stettheimer embraced a decorative, slightly camp aesthetic with…
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From Riders to Tackle! – how Britain loves Jilly Cooper’s raunchy novels
Daisy Buchanan, author of books including Insatiable and Limelight, host of the…
The one thing George Orwell’s 1984 got wrong
The lapsing of copyright has triggered an avalanche of new editions from…
Killers of the Flower Moon: How the shocking Osage murders were nearly erased from US history
(Image credit: Apple TV+) As Martin Scorsese’s latest epic Killers of the…
‘Cosy crime’ novels: Are they brilliant entertainment or ‘twee and insipid’?
However, while some readers might have preferred that crime novel fad, there’s…
Why John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is the ultimate spy novel
Set against the backdrop of a divided, post-war Berlin, the novel tells…
The Hours at 25: The book that changed how we see Virginia Woolf
As in The Hours, this sequence in Woolf Works gestures towards Woolf’s…
The eight best gothic books of all time
Where would we be without gothic literature? With its seductive blend of…
The Korean Wave: 25 stories that define Korea’s dramatic history
Epic adventure-satire Whale, written by Cheon Myeong-kwan in 2003 and translated into…