A really great book with a wonderful, pitch perfect voice. I very much recommend it.

Having been interviewed on the authorship of a book about a teenage boy, I notice no-one fails to ask why I wrote from a male perspective. I usually mention that much of the world's cultural output reinforces the male voice - a recent survey of British television found that two thirds of the characters in fictional works were male.

For the last few weeks I've been on a thriller chase, so to speak, so this week's book, The Uncoupling by New Yorker Meg Wolitzer, is a welcome break, kind of like a soy frap = fluffy, light, and curious.

Readers, it is hard to find good books. Thrillers do impressive business in the literary world, and yet few of them capture my imagination, or even fa...

There have been many contenders for the Millennium Series crown, and a hell of a lot of scrabbling within the industry for the next bestselling thriller with characters as memorable as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.

Hello again, and welcome to Part 2 of my attempt to change your lives with literature and/or, at the very least, make your commute more enjoyable. I'm...

Whether traveling to work to pay off your debts, traveling to Uni to incur them, or sitting at home watching repeats of Location, Location, Location and risking repossession or being kicked out by your landlord because you have lost your job in the recession, this is the book to download or pick up.