Valerie Grove
You Must Remember This
“Whenever I crop up in someone’s reminiscences, I find their memory irritatingly fallible”
Laurie Lee’s Ladies
Uncovering the truth from the author’s legend
Unhappy Families
Completion is a dazzling debut by a promising young novelist
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it