SportBook review: <i>The Grudge: Scotland vs England, 1990</i>Last Sunday saw Wales deny England a Grand Slam when thrashing them in Cardiff. Twenty-three years ago saw one of the most famous Grand Slams in what was then the Five Nations - and England were again the central protagonists.21 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Instructions For A HeatwaveNicky Pellegrino finds she wants 'something else' from a writer she admires.16 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Nothing Gold Can StayBeing praised by, among many others, Daniel Woodrell — the author of the bleak <i>Winter’s Bone</i>, which was made into a suitably monochromatic and emotionally grim feature film — shows where Ron Rash’s fiction lies on the graph.15 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Gone GirlBook clubs, commuters and celebrities have gone wild for <i>Gone Girl</i>, the smash-hit thriller that has Hollywood in a spin. Tim Walker talks to author Gillian Flynn about being this year’s literary sensation15 Mar 05:00 PM
SportBook review: Training ToughThe Franks brothers, famously, are allowed to follow their own training programmes so if All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wanted to get an idea of what they were up to he could do worse than read their new book.14 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Heartbreak HotelBritish author Deborah Moggach returns to the rickety hotel setting that earned her big box-office success, writes Stephen Jewell08 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Life After LifeA story that lets its heroine rework her life holds Nicky Pellegrino spellbound.02 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Reading words about writersIf its subject were less illustrious, this memoir would probably receive little attention.23 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Turn Right At Machu PicchuThis is very good, with an unusual proviso; this narrative has more routine everyday mountain climbing than anything I've read.22 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Truth Like the SunThe 19th century novels I still like give a strong sense of demanding to be read aloud to an audience. But by 1950, I would say, that lingering expectation of how a novel delivers had changed, in most languages and even most genres.16 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: BlasphemyAll sorts of unexpected, unsettling things happen in these 30 short stories. In Phoenix, Arizona, jobless Victor heads south with his nation's worst-ever storyteller to reclaim parental remains.15 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Fishing FleetThis fishing fleet has nothing to do with cod or snapper. It’s a witty, whimsical account of the boatloads of British belles, who, from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th century, were shipped out to India to marry English males.09 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Return Of A KingCompare these two statements. "If the foreign forces are ready to leave our country ... then we can help them. But if they insist on continuing the war, we don't have any other way than fighting." An Afghan warlord, speaking in 2009.09 Feb 05:00 PM
