UK readers may be familiar with Cathy Newman from her role as journalist and presenter on Channel Four’s nightly news programme. She has a very direct but completely amicable style that often disarms the people that she interviews. This easygoing style translates into her written prose and what could be […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
The debut novel from a London journalist, The Plus One is a bit like eating candy floss when you know that you should be eating salad. It is a romp very much in the style of an early Jilly Cooper novel updated for the noughties. Polly works for a society […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
I’ve always thought that a Jodi Picoult book was a bit like watching an episode of House. Right at the start you get to know the people and characters concerned then spend the next part wondering what the “bad thing” is that will inevitably happen. After that bad thing has […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes