Shirley Conran

The comfort of curling up with a violent thriller

15 March 2025 9:00 am

When post-natal depression descends, Lucy Mangan describes reaching for Lee Child, finding catharsis in his no-nonsense villain-bashing

A mini art form

27 August 2022 9:00 am

It sounds disingenuous, not to say dis-respectful, but as a writer of 40 books, give or take, I never read…

Scarlett O’Hara runs through the streets of burning Atlanta

A dangerous heroine addiction

18 January 2014 9:00 am

This book arose from an argument. Lifelong bookworm Samantha Ellis and her best friend had gone to Brontë country and…