Christina Hardyment

If you’re mourning the imminent demise of Endeavour, the Morse prequel, comfort yourself with a bright new series that makes Colin Dexter’s Oxford feel distinctly passé

Louise Candlish is establishing herself as a first-class thriller writer, and in Jamie Parker she has found a fine narrator who keeps the listener enthralled

The latest instalment of this long-running Venetian thriller doesn’t disappoint, writes Christina Hardyment

The gusto-filled narration left me wanting to hear more from this forgotten writer

There’s a point in I Will Find You when our hero, trapped on the roof of an eight-storey building and considering a leap to another roof, gasps that “my heart i

Novels of ideas that spend an inordinate amount of time examining their characters’ psychological navels are rarely suited to being read aloud, as it is easy to

The journalist Stephanie Merritt loved detective novels as a teenager but was told they were second-rate as literature. Then she read Umberto Eco’s The Name of

With the coronation in mind, here is a lively amalgam of gossip and (to me) surprising facts about Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother that will give any royal-wa

Choosing the Ugandan-born Shakespearean actress Sheila Atim to narrate Laura Purcell’s Victorian theatreland-set gothic novel is a stroke of genius. She draws u

Samara Naeymi’s lively narration enhances Eleanor Janega’s eye-opening and provocative account of the lives of women in the Middle Ages. As academics go, Janega