Books

Here is a reissue for the second of the 18 books by American author Ross Macdonald featuring private eye Lew Archer, and it’s hard not to disagree with learned opinion that, Initially at least, Archer was similar to (if not completely derivative of) Philip ...

Published 76 years ago in 1947 and notably filmed with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in 1950, this latest edition adds another captivating cover illustration to the several different editions released over the years. "In a Lonely Place” holds its place on bookshelves with ...

Hungarians are a book-loving people, Dutch Ambassador Desiree Bonis said in her address at the 28th International Book Festival that opened in Budapest on Thursday. The Netherlands is guest of honour this year.

Facing up to the case of Kurt Waldheim helped Austrians process their role in the second world war, Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, said at the book presentation on Thursday of Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky's Austria and the Waldheim Case.

This is the motherload – well, partly. Sergeant’s first memoir in 2021 detailed his upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s outside Liverpool up to his first year as amateurish guitarist in Echo and the Bunnymen. And there, frustratingly, it ended, leaving we aficionados in ...

Daredevils are those brave and adventurous souls who do things the rest of us are too timid or too busy to do ourselves. We, the cautious, the couch potatoes, content ourselves with vicarious thrills as our betters climb mountains, skydive, break speed records, explore ...

Any aficionado of crime novels and films knows the “good cop, bad cop” routine, where a seething cop batters about a suspect until the accused turns to the sympathetic “good” cop for protection and spills the beans. It’s a cynical trick, of course. But ...

They would certainly look impressive as a set of ten on bookshelves, all with the iconic green hue that is the centrepiece of their new covers, and it should be a strong bet that buyers are in for some thumping good reads too – ...

Ten crime and espionage novels by British, American, Belgian and Japanese authors published between 1928 and 1978 are in a new series from Penguin Random House, dressed in their signature vintage look with green-and-black-and-white paperback covers, the originals of which are now very collectable, ...

In the almost six years of war with Germany, September 3, 1939 to May 8, 1945, London was "the greatest target in the world”, as Winston Churchill described it. The unmissable bullseye was under sustained, sometimes unrelenting, aerial bombardment by night and day. While ...