Cath Kidston

Despite the fact that there are stores with her name above the door across the globe, Cath Kidston’s preoccupations have changed little...

Melvin Burgess

The recession has lasted decades. There is mass unemployment and mass poverty. You are a teenager with no future ahead of you and someone offers...

What’s scarier than a psychopathic serial killer that can travel through time toying with victims at various points in their life? Not...

Flight 373 from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, begins ordinarily enough for high school student Patrick Gamble. Until the werewolf terrorist...

A barnacled plastic freezer bag washes ashore on a remote island off the Canadian west coast and is found by a writer named Ruth. Inside is a...

Of all the début authors in 2013, Taiye Selasi will assuredly be the only one who can claim to have been badgered and cajoled into her...

As Mary Beard, Cambridge University’s professor of classics picks up the phone; I hear the chime of her computer. She has just filed the...

When 17-year-old Alex Woods is stopped at Dover Customs with four ounces of cannabis, he is struggling to maintain consciousness, visibly...

Think of your deepest, darkest secret, one that you could never tell those closest to you—your family, your friends—because it would...

It’s October 2001, a month after 9/11, and Western armies have invaded Afghanistan. Brothers Jeo and Mikal make the decision to leave...

Weddings and family drama often go hand in hand and in Seating Arrangements (Blue Door, April), the van Meter clan are on fine...

William Dalrymple is recalling his research for Return of a King (Bloomsbury, February): “The greatest pleasure for a traveller...

Alice is heartbroken and lonely—recently returned to her family home and the elder sisters she has never really felt related to, to be by...