community life

A simple life fraught with difficulties: Ruth, by Kate Riley, reviewed

13 September 2025 9:00 am

The eponymous protagonist struggles against the strictures of her Anabaptist upbringing whereby women cook, clean and police each other’s morals

A perfect nightmare

14 February 2015 9:00 am

Dylan Evans, the author of this book, was one of those oddballs who rather looked forward to the apocalypse, because…