Somewhere between the high culture of the Cain and Abel story (via both Genesis and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden) and the low culture of a buddy road trip flick lies Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott. Despite the cheesy title a...

Spitfire American novelist Lionel Shriver isn’t known for her subtlety or political correctness. Instead she cannily skewers the major issues that are at the forefront – or that have been relegated to the collective back of the...

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a masterpiece of cynicism about the Russian revolution and the bourgeois versus the proleteriat. This is a true must read and if you have been putting it off for as long as I have, I recommend yo...