Keeping itin the family = GENRE ROUND-UP DEBUTS By Suzi Feay amilies mould us, cage us, define us and (if we're lucky) free us. There's no better framework for a novel. In And | Am the Arrow by Pia Ghosh- Roy (The Indigo Press £12.99) even death can’t break the familial bond. Three generations of women live in an art deco-style mansion in Calcutta that is clinging on to traces of grandeur, althoug…
SATURDAY 12, SEPTEMBER 2026 When Endurance Becomes a Trap-A Review of Tanitoluwa Adeniba’s The House Was Never Quiet Title: The House Was Never Quiet: Domestic Violence and What We Hide Behind Closed Doors Author: Tanitoluwa Adeniba, PhD. Year of Publication: 2026 Number of Pages: 176 Category: Self Help @ Businessday.ng 0) 8 @businessdayng 40 SATURDAY 12, SEPTEMBER 2026 THE HOUSE WAS NEVER QUIET:…
Denmark's women on the edge Compelling fiction by Dorthe Nors and Helle Helle explores solitude, regret and lives not led, writes Matthew Janney wo recently translated Danish novels probe the distances between loneli- ness and connection, through two solitary female protagonists. In Helle Helles Hafni Says, a woman on the verge of divorce sets out on a road trip, or as she describes it a “smerrebr…
A real-life thriller traces the rise of private capital through the story of financier Leon Black — and the Epstein scandal that sunk him. By Patrick Jenkins eon Black was in his second year at Harvard Business School when his famous father threw himself out of his office window.” So begins an early chapter of William D Cohan's latest Wall Street non-fiction thriller, Money to Burn, the epic tale …
hough he is never directly mentioned, the spirit of Donald Trump stalks the contemporary dystopia of Emily St John Mandel’s new novel. The woman who gave us the defining pandemic novel just five years before Covid has set a similar timeframe for her drastic vision of America (and indeed the wider world). Exit Party isa sweeping saga of parallel universes, lost possibilities and collapsing governan…
10 saturday review Saturday September 12 2026 | THE TIMES books The spook who betrayed his country for his sex life Book of the week How trouble in a KGB officer’s marital bed may have changed the course of history in the Middle East. By James Owen Redwood The Untold Story of the Cold ‘Wars Most Extraordinary Spy by Ben Macintyre Viking £25 pp464 s in all the best spy stories, what lies at the hea…
Youre cordially invited to the 1950s A witty caper about the misfits charged with planning the 1951 Festival of Britain. By Patricia Nicol i tonic to the nation” was what Gerald Barry, the director of the Festival of Britain, vowed to deliver to a war- worn, still rationed UK citizenry in 1951 Tn Kate Atkinson’ fizzy, deliciously quaffable new caper Our Noble Selves — which has the festival''s pla…
children’s book of the week Guts, gore and factoids galore. By Lucy Bannerman ho’s ready for some blood and guts? This is a brisk, lively history of medicine throughout the ages. It’s also very proud to be a children’s history book about something other than kings, queens or famous people. “Whereas the stories of kings and queens concern a very few of the richest people in society, medicine affect…
books I. 4A On the run with mum, an illegal mail-order bride Katya Suvorova recounts her tough childhood as ‘Russian trash’ in America. By Ceci Browning ts a summer afternoon sometime in the second half of the 1990s. Katya Suvorova, aged four, has been left to her own devices. She is playing with a Barbie wearing sparkly blue shoes, shoes so lovely that she decides to push one up her nose as far a…
‘If T could remember their singing and write down the notes, no man who read that score would ever grow sick or old.” —cs. LEwis Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell By Emmanuel Swedenborg (1758) ~@ Emmanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish mystic born in 1688, wasn’t being metaphorical ~B_ when he subtitled his other- worldly narrative “From Things Heard and Seen.” A gifted scientist who had a long career with t…
