The National, October 2015 There’s dedication by authors to authenticity in their writing – and then there’s Fiona McIntosh. For her new book, The Perfumer’s Secret, the best-selling novelist, who lives in Adelaide, Australia, wanted to […]
The National, August 2015 It sounds like the kind of story that could only exist in fiction. An Indian man in his late 40s, part martial artist, part journalist and fully committed to breaking outlandish […]
The National, July 2015 Of all the heartbreaking lines in Harper Lee’s “new” novel, Go Set aWatchman, it’s a question the now elderly, arthritis-ridden Atticus Finch poses to his daughter, Scout, that really cuts to the […]
The Observer, January 2016 In Glenn Patterson’s colourful novel about John DeLorean’s infamous, gull-winged sports car manufactured in Northern Ireland, the enigmatic entrepreneur-engineer dreams of seeing his futuristic creation in a movie. Of course, the DMC-12 would go on […]
The Observer, December 2015 The New York Times called him “the poet laureate of medicine”, so when Oliver Sacks learned that his cancer was terminal, it was perhaps inevitable that the author of Awakenings should turn to writing to try to […]