Book Reviews

Simpsons matriarch Marge Simpson is the first cartoon character to adorn the cover of Playboy magazine.The November issue sees Marge posing on a chair... ... [more]

Hilary Mantel is the 2009 Man Booker Prize winner for her historical novel based on Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall.Mantel, 57, took... ... [more]

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol has sold more copies in its first 36 hours of UK release than any other adult hardback novel... ... [more]

Ian Fleming’s fictional secret agent James Bond is in a league of his own as far as the smoothest literary heroes of all time are concerned, whi... ... [more]

Sophie Kinsella series of Shopaholic novels cemented her as one of the most popular chick-lit writers and this popularity was cemented by a big screen... ... [more]

Neil White may be a successful author, now on his third book Last Rites, but he is also a criminal lawyer and family man,  it's amazing he finds... ... [more]

New research shows that females are prolific readers and real ‘Page Turners’ while men drag behind as ‘Slow Worms’ who just ca... ... [more]

With the announcement that Leona Lewis is to write an autobiography for release later this year, it stands to question just how many years’ expe... ... [more]