In Kate Atkinson’s novel Transcription (2018), set in postwar London, Juliet Armstrong, a BBC producer for “Schools”, reflects that her colleagues seemed to be fixated on an Old England of sea ...

Like many a murder mystery before it, The Violet Hour opens with a suicide: a young man throws himself from the top of a Victorian water tower in south London. He is later revealed to be Luca Holden, ...

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It is 1964, somewhere near Birbeck College. A thirty-three-year-old Roger Penrose and the famously effusive mathematical physicist Ivor Robinson are returning to work from lunch. The otherwise ...

Huawei – one of the world’s largest and most powerful technology firms – is rarely out of the media spotlight. Yet we know surprisingly little about its origins and inner workings. In House of Huawei, ...

A pre-dynastic tomb in Lower Egypt preserves the remains of a long-departed youth, adorned in death by a necklace bearing small beads of iron. When discovered, the beads presented a conundrum for ...

Recently republished by Virago, with an illuminating foreword by Camilla Grudova, Caroline Blackwood’s The Fate of Mary Rose (1981) is a forgotten classic about suburban monstrosity. Too often ...

Everything about the Dancing Lion Chocolate café in Manchester, New Hampshire, sounds a tad pretentious. The edible art. The cutesy tile tables. The fact that the owner is called Richard Tango-Lowy.

Money to Burn (Penge på lommen, 2020) is the first in a projected seven-novel series by the Danish poet and novelist Asta ...