Crime Novels
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Murders for June
Prepare to be taken to church – this month offers up rich description, promising debuts, and a clerical mystery that manages moral seriousness
Murders for April
Dark academia and classic hollywood horror
Murders for February
Gripping books and the promise of another
Murders for the New Year
A dark start to 2023
Murders for December
From Sweden to Bombay
Murders for November
Gripping plots and dodgy prose for the autumn months
Murders for October
A cornucopia of killings
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries