David Robinson Reviews: The Loch of the Bees
‘The past’s current flows through the characters in his fiction so strongly that it almost becomes t …
The Nightkeeper’s Apprentice by Jude Reid
‘She’d never seen anything like it. The whole sky was lit up in ribbons of colour – blue, green, yel …
David Robinson Interviews: Gavin Francis
‘He’s not my GP so I can’t say this for sure, but based on this book – wise, informed, well-written, …
The Cromarty Library Circle by Shona MacLean
‘No one in the room could have been unaware of what it was that Dr Fraser alluded to. The horrors pe …
In Search of Gems by Kenneth Steven
‘It still amazes me that these magnificent shells grow in a river. Never mind whether they have pear …
Winterbourne by Elisabeth Wolf
‘The Coopers stared at each other for a second, two seconds. ‘It’s a sign—’ said Cooper.’
Raised in Edinburgh, Marianne Brown spent many years working as a journalist in Southeast Asia and later in Britain as the editor of an environmental magazine. She now works for a community-owned energy cooperative based in Bristol. She lives in Devon …
Lexus started up in 1980, some years before the car. The company was founded by a group of bilingual lexicographers who had learned their trade in the bilingual dictionary department of Collins Publishers. At first Lexus was a packager and created a wi …
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