Modern British Fiction
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After mixed reviews of his medical novel Human Traces, Sebastian Faulks is back on form with Engleby, recently released in paperback. more...
Over the last fifteen years Sebastian Faulks has established himself as one of the most accomplished and successful authors in the UK. more...
With his seventh book due to be released in paperback in the UK this summer, Kernick has become one of the most successful of the current crop of British crime writers. more...
With Salman Rushdie back in the news as the bookies favourite for the 2008 "Best of Booker" Prize, now is the perfect time to find out more about this great novelist. more...
Lee Child Biography & Bibliography
Since the publication of his debut novel in 1997, Lee Child has won popular and critical acclaim for his American thrillers - yet he is a British writer. more...
Maggie O'Farrell is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented writers in the UK, having already produced four critically and popularly acclaimed novels. more...
McEwan's latest book received rapturous praise on its first publication in 2007. Now, with the paperback version available, even more readers can enjoy this superb novel. more...
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Agatha Christie's Short Stories
By: Claire Cowling
While the Light Lasts is a collection of some of the early short stories by Agatha Christie. It will appeal to fans of Agatha Christie and the short story alike. more...
Harry Potter and Magical Thinking
By: Jeannie Delahunt
Magic is used throughout the Potter tales. Is it just a facet of the setting, or does the appeal have a deeper attraction? more...
The Book Boy by Joanna Trollope
By: Claire Cowling
Joanna Trollope's The Book Boy explores the psychology of a woman who is trapped by her illiteracy and her fight to escape her own family's perceptions of her. more...
By: Jeannie Delahunt
J.K. Rowling created a phenomenally popular series with "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The success of this epic may have sociological and psychological roots. more...
Review of Brick Lane by Monica Ali
By: Sabine Schmidt
Monica Ali's first novel shows immigrants taking old identities with them, but change is inevitable and the mix of old and new makes for a better life. more...
A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
By: Mary Hiers
Four suicidal people form a makeshift family despite their lack of commonality and personality clashes in this brilliant novel by British writer Nick Hornby more...
Dead Simple - Peter James Review
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Rachel L. Webb
A cracking mystery tale with all the essential elements - love, sex, greed, money and betrayal. Try it you'll like it. more...
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