The story of one man's quest to get home

1:44pm Thursday 7th August 2008

THIS month’s Book Group selection is the winner of the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction, The Road Home by Rose Tremain.

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Keen eye for the everyday

1:32pm Friday 4th July 2008

TO coincide with the Ledbury Poetry Festival, this month’s book group selection is Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 by Wendy Cope.

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Gr8 way 2 bring poetry 2 life

1:15pm Thursday 26th June 2008

TEXTING may not seem to have much to do with poetry, especially if your experience of poetry is limited to learning verse by rote at school.

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Second novel packs a powerful punch

1:50pm Thursday 5th June 2008

THIS month’s selection is Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, the second novel from the author of the best-selling The Kite Runner, and like its predecessor, a book that doesn’t relinquish its grip on the reader until the last page is turned.

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Myerson mystery a million miles from conventional

1:10pm Thursday 8th May 2008

THOUGH the title suggests a traditional thriller and it does open with a brutal murder in the car park of a Suffolk seaside town, Something Might Happen is a million miles from a conventional murder mystery......

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Bitttersweet victory

1:53pm Thursday 3rd April 2008

IN 1941, Irène Némirovsky and her husband fled Paris for the small village of Issy-l'Eveque to join the two daughters they had sent there two years earlier.

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A Spot of Bother follows a Curious Incident

1:22pm Thursday 6th March 2008

George Hall is 57, happily enjoying his retirement building a studio in the garden where he will paint. But then, as he stands in a fitting room in Allders in Croydon, trying on a suit to wear to Bob Green's funeral, he discovers a lesion on his hip and immediately fears the worst.

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Making the ordinary extraordinary

12:13pm Thursday 10th January 2008

RUTH is the friend Ann has been searching for all her life without realising it, and now Ruth is dying at the age of 43.

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Titan prisons a 'massive mistake'

Updated 7:35am Thursday 28th August 2008

Pressing ahead with plans to build three huge "Titan" prisons would be a "costly and hugely damaging mistake", the Government has been warned.

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