Anne Maguire and Julie Bindel Anne: "I had read other lesbian novels but it was one of the first books that I read and I wanted to be Val. She was everything I wasn’t, I wanted to stride through ...
The one snag with William Boyd’s Cold War spy novel, Gabriel’s Moon, is that it is almost too seductive; it made me read too hungrily, too fast. Its crafted prose deserves savouring as much as ...