This book is told from the perspective of Martha Gelhorn who is the second wife of Ernest Hemingway. The narrator is witty, fearless and fiercely independent. McLain captures a true perception of living with the ever charming but notorious Ernest Hemingway. Gelhorn is determined to make it as a writer in her own right, and she applies for a journalist position. She falls deeply in love with Ernest and they both travel together to write about the Spanish Civil War. There are some wonderful poignant moments as Gelhorn witnesses a war torn Spain. Overall an excellent read and real page turner.

Detectorists is a comedy about two middle-aged friends in a small community of metal detector hobbyists. Detectorists moves very slowly and steadily, but if you stick with it I think you’ll really warm to Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones), and the rest of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club. It’s a wonderful look into the world of metal detectors, sorry, Detectorists!

This is a collection of pieces previously published in the Guardian newspaper between 2013 and 2017, from the originator of the pioneering Everyday Sexism Project. The articles have been collected thematically into sections, dealing with different manifestations of sexism. In this way, you can as Laura Bates puts it, ‘join the dots’ and see that one issue is connected to another. In this book she is endeavouring to make people see the bigger picture and not treat one aspect, or perhaps one incident as an isolated thing, but part of a an overall pattern.

I don’t really know what I was expecting from this, an account of the author’s friendship with and ultimate betrayal by the so-called “New York Grifter”, Anna Delvey (aka Sorokin). Maybe something on the lines of “Catch me if you can”, the story of teenage fraudster Frank Abagnale who could make people believe he was anything from a pilot to a doctor, or that of Anna Anderson, a Polish factory worker who fooled half the world into thinking she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Now that’s chutzpah – but if I was hoping for some here, I was sorely disappointed.

This year BirthMoviesDeath published an article entitled "If you're not reading Babyteeth go to hell". Well on the basis of such an emphatic recommendation I dutifully picked up the first two volumes. This is a seriously addictive comic series. The series follows Sadie, an all American girl who finds out she is pregnant. The only difference is her baby has pitch black eyes, a literal earth-shaking scream and is the antichrist. The story takes in demonic companions, conspiracies and violence. Cates has been killing it on Marvel's "Venom" and here has been perfectly matched with Brown's moody

The troubled product of a broken home Ant Middleton joined the British Army at the age of 17 in 1997. A fiercely determined young man he advanced into the elite 9 Para Squadron RE and served in Northern Ireland and Macedonia. However the ultra macho boisterous hard drinking culture of his unit did not satisfy the dedicated Middleton who left to join the Royal Marines serving in 40 Commando and ultimately the Special Boat Service or SBS, the maritime counterpart of the more famous SAS the elite special forces of the British armed forces. He describes in excruciating detail the pitiless

I picked this book up because I quite like a historical murder mystery, which both the cover picture and the first few chapters seemed to promise. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, is travelling across Wessex in the year 1468 to officiate at the funeral of a fellow clergyman based in a remote parish on the edge of the diocese. Conceive, then, of my gobsmackedness when our protagonist, passing the night in the austere bedchamber of the late Father Lacey, comes across a shiny rectangular object and turns it over to find a strange symbol, an apple with a bite taken out of it, etched into the

In these uncertain times, few stories strike as poignant a chord as Margaret Atwood's feminist masterpiece “The Handmaid's Tale”. Since it's publication in 1985 this story of one woman's enslavement as a human broodmare in an intensely fundamentalist regime has spawned a film and an Emmy award winning tv series. Last year, in the sequel “The Testaments”, Atwood took us back to Gilead, a country whose concept is as worryingly relevant today as it was thirty-five years ago.

This is a very enjoyable account of a real-life female detective that reads like fiction. The author quickly realised that ‘London’s Lady Detective’ worked under a pseudonym and that her life story was going to be difficult to uncover. Maud West operated from around 1905 until the eve of World War II, when she shut up shop and to all intents and purposes, disappeared from the record. Piece by piece Susannah Stapleton slowly put Maud West’s biography together, but not without many dead ends and false leads, identifying her husband and children.