TLS contributors choose their favourites

Best books… Richard Holmes The biographer chooses five ...

December round-up Although he’s been writing and performing for many years, Donald WG Lindsay might come across as a bold new Scottish talent on Two Boats Under the Moon, his excellent two-disc debut

T he British Museum Is Falling Down , ...

Review of reviews: Books

MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch