Jeremy Black recommends a menagerie of disturbing animal-themed stories to entertain throughout the summer

Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?

Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative

Thanks to “critical theory”, the study of English literature has become overrun with boring academics who hardly inspire the next generation

Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing

In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story

The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel

I’m delighted that Meghan Markle has decided to stop causing controversy and embark on the more sedate pursuit of a literary career

The Famous Five react to Auntie Enid’s cancellation

A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin