The evil that men do
Early one summer’s morning in 1994, Paul Jennings Hill, a defrocked Presbyterian minister, gunned down a doctor, John Britton, as…
Free love’s fallout
Ann Patchett’s new novel is an American family saga involving six children, 50 years and too many coincidences to count.…
You can run but you can’t hide
In The Circle, Dave Eggers’s satirical dystopia about an insatiable Google-like conglomerate, there’s a scene in which drones hound a…
Strange sightings in Essex
I suspect some readers might be too cool for this lovely book, partly because, despite its gothic horror set-up, it…
