Teachers lurk anxiously behind tinsel-covered curtains; excited children wait for their big moment; and nervous parents hope that their…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…

In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

A review of Russell Brand's My Booky Wook.

It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…

A review of the book God Explained in a Taxi Ride.

Jodi Picoult is not an author to shy away from controversial topics. Her novels cover issues such as rape, suicide pacts and genetically…

The biggest television hit in the USA since ER first aired has hit UK screens this year. Set in a wealthy and pristine suburban cul-de-sac,…