Books

Book review: Growing Up for Beginners

This vastly enjoyable read is about the importance of knowing yourself and living with confidence

Book Review: Three

This is a dark thriller, which picks up pace as it goes along, says David Herman

Book review: Children Against Hitler

Each story is a catalogue of close escapes and reading them is at times uncomfortably thrilling

Book review: Hitler’s Last Hostages

This exceptionally well-written book documents how Hitler was the cause and the Gurlitts the effect in a poisonous equation

In pursuit of elusive truth

Book review: On Turpentine Lane and Good Riddance

Elinor Lipman is a clever writer, who offers accessible entertainment, but she also asks her own questions about what the purpose of literature might be