A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (NYRB Classics, $14). In this slim 1980 novel, a young man just back from the First World War is hired to restore a wall painting in a Yorkshire church.

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks’s The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which a young woman answers an ad to carry a child that is, unbeknownst to her ...

It's about ordinary people doing ordinary things but it's an extraordinary book. Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and ...

Charlie Russell is Isabelle Azaire as Sebastian Faulks’ epic tale of love and loss Birdsong returns to the stage in a ...