The Way of All Flesh is the first publication in a new series of crime-novel meets historical fiction, written by a husband-and-wife duo, Chris Brookmyre and Maisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry. Set in Victorian times, a medical apprentice and a housemaid team up in an unlikely partnership to solve the mystery after a […]
In 1932 and again in 1947, all the 11-year-olds in Scotland participated in the ‘Scottish Mental Survey’, an intelligence assessment created to provide data for educational policy reforms at the time. After fulfilling its purpose, this data was soon left behind as research developed and the data became out-of-date. This was until 1999 when Ian […]
Cormac O’Keeffe’s debut novel, Black Water, tells the story of football-mad Jig Hunt, a ten-year-old teetering on the edge of Dublin gangland. With an alcoholic mother and abusive father, Jig searches for role-models as he enters the adult world. He must choose between Shay, his well-meaning football coach who is trying to get him out […]
Whilst there are many addiction memoirs out there with authors displaying their ‘failures’ for the public’s shock and entertainment, Jenny Valentish has succeeded in producing a rare kind of memoir that is informative rather than solely self-indulgent. An English journalist and author currently living in Australia, Valentish has hunted down leading scientists and academics to shed […]