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The death of Helen Smith has been shrouded in controversy ever since the 23-year-old nurse allegedly fell from a sixth-floor balcony in...

Got to confess I’m not a fan of sci-fi novels. Movies, maybe – but novels . . . Along with westerns, chick-lit and Fantasy/Magic Realism...

Not for nothing did authors Derek Humphry and David Tindall choose ‘False Messiah’ as the title for their book about the remarkable life...

Knole House in Sevenoaks is arguably Britain’s greatest private house. Home to the same family for thirteen generations, Robert...

Much of what David Skelton advocates to 'fix' an ailing and dispirited UK in his recently published tract The New Snobbery is...

Sir John Mortimer is perhaps best know for creating one of literature's most irrascible yet loveable characters in Horace Rumpole. The...

Imagine a place sandwiched somewhere 'twixt the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, not as far south as Turkey, nor as far north as Moscow,...

The brutal murder in 1972 of Gail Benson was wicked beyond belief. It happened in January of 1972 in Trinidad where Miss Benson was...

Stepping Westward is an ambitious novel. And at over 400 pages in length it’s a book that is undeniably meatier than your average campus...

For a brief moment – 1991 to be precise - everything the KLF touched turned to, well, gold. Frontman and Ex-Echo & The Bunnymen and...

I first came across Jeffrey Bernard in the late 70s when he was writing a column for a Sunday redtop. Even as a pre-teenager I was...

I have to confess until I stumbled upon it in what I now appreciate was an act of supreme serendipity, I had never heard of this, one of...

Two unsolved murders which happened in 1970s Iceland are the subject for Simon Cox's diligently researched book, The Reykjavik...

The disappearance of Claudia Lawrence in 2009 generated an avalanche of media headlines, the majority of which were predictably...

Reading Ian McEwan’s Solar is at times a hard task. While you don’t necessarily need to understand the precise meaning of words such as...

Reading or indeed listening to the late Christopher Hitchens is always a challenging as well as illuminating experience. Let’s just say...

John Mortimer is probably best-known these days for Rumpole, the irascible TV barrister married to the indomitable...

Stockton Heath reviews Martin Knight's book 'Justice for Joan: The Arundel Murder' an account of the 1948 murder of Joan Woodhouse.

If when reading Submission you’re expecting an apocalyptic tale of France under threat from Islam and the emergence of a new Crusader...

Anyone who has ever stepped foot in one of those whitewashed ex-pat communities on Spain's Costa del Sol will feel instantly at home with...