The National, June 2017 I’m excited – and a little worried, given the timing,” frets American author Mark Powell. With good reason: his latest book is his first through a major publishing house, and has […]
The National, June 2017 It’s a new story in the Lord of the Rings universe, except it’s 100 years old. Beren and Lúthien, first conceived by JRR Tolkein in 1917, is the tale of a […]
The National, May 2017 Sometimes a book arrives at exactly the right time. The day after the suicide bombing in Manchester, I’m talking to Sabrina Mahfouz, the editor of The Things I Would Tell You, […]
The National, May 2017 In the aftermath of ISIL-inspired attacks, there are stories we hear far too often. Of young people growing up in the West becoming increasingly alienated, only finding a sense of their […]
The National, May 2017 It remains Agatha Christie’s biggest unsolved mystery. The year was 1926, and the “Queen of Crime” had just published one of her finest detective novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. With […]