The starting book this month is Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller in which a woman discovers her friend may not be as it seems when her affair with a pupil comes to light. The Age of Innocence won…
What are you reading just now? Am I on the island on my own? In that case, a Discworld novel, probably ‘Equal Rites’. If I have my children with me, then ‘Matilda’.If you were on Desert Island Discs, what one…
In the first, ‘Spy Game’, he works a ‘contract labourer’ for British intelligence in Afghanistan and takes credit for an assassination he doesn’t actually commit. The question: Why do you write? Spy Dragon by John Fullerton was published by Burning…
And yet this same Sancho will go on to tread the boards of London’s theatres, become a highly acclaimed musician and composer, lead the fight to end slavery, meet the King and become the very first Black person to vote…
The very end of September saw me attend Capital Crime, a 3 day book festival celebrating all things crime. I only attended for one day, on Friday 30th September in a rather wet and windy Battersea Park. There I met…
A couple leaving the hospital with two babies in matching navy carry seats bustled by her. Liv loved twins, well, she’d been one herself. But Rachel had died before her twenty-fifth birthday. Cancer – what else. She still talked to…
I will looking at the painting of The Skating Minister much more closely the next time I go to the gallery. Is it a Raeburn? Could it have been Francis Pringle? Did he really exist? Has Michelle Sloan cracked the…
I’ll read anything by Guo – her work is so tender and graceful and ribboned with sadness and longing. But this was my first and my favourite. Feeling inspired? Shop Emma’s Desert Island picks below… I know I’m cheating by…
Having more than one perspective also aided the mystery because there was a lot of information coming my, but slowly it was pieced together which made the ending even more satisfying. There were a lot of moving parts, so try…
Ryan Holiday’s latest book, Discipline is Destiny, was published by Profile Books on 27 September 2022. About the Book Self-discipline is the moderating influence against the impulse of all other things. Cultivate it in every deed, and it will enable…
