Everything you need to know about beach reads
Beach reads are not a genre – they can be just about anything. But you do know one when you see one – and that’s what we’re investigating here.
In praise of shorter books – if you can spare the time, of course
The page count in best selling books is getting smaller. People have no time any more. Are shorter books the next chapter in the publishing game? Kiwi Rose Matafeo is a cracking comedian. Her recent West End show, caught on camera for the BBC, is full of zippy...
Why we’re all living an unusual kind of hell
Surviving Hell – the title of Nick Dunn’s story of injustice and perilous prisons – seems a fitting tagline for our current Covid-19 predicament, don’t you think? The autobiography, which I edited for Mirror Books and which is on sale now, tells a twin-track tale. In...