Waking from a dream in which she was strangling her attractive new neighbour Lindy, Rosamund Fielding is suddenly confronted by her husband Geoffrey bearing the breathless news that Lindy has disap…| The Invisible Event
October, the heart of the spooky season and culminating in Halloween, is the perfect month to immerse oneself in books that have the power to unsettle. And here is a stack of books I read this year and last that fit the bill, a great accompaniment to chilly weather and warm fires, cozy blankets, candle-lit…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
An interview with poet Bernard O'Donoghue about his latest collection, "Anchorage."| Chicago Review of Books
#368: What had I imagined? Time as a merry-go-round one could jump on and off? The year as a stream running underneath my eighteenth of November? As it turns out, both Tara Selter and I got a littl…| This Reading Life
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted m…| This Reading Life
A gold bar is deceptively heavy. Four hundred troy ounces, about 12.5 kilograms, of ultra-high-purity gold formed into an ingot – a sort of slender brick crossed with a pyramid. The gold bar …| This Reading Life
Tall and sharp at fifty-two, Campbell Flynn was a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished. He had secrets and troubl…| This Reading Life
