A.S.H. Smyth

Homework is openly billed as an antidote to memoirs full of derring-do but it does exactly what the essayist’s fans will want

He explores the lives of the nurses, train drivers, rescue crews and factory workers who are up and about while the rest of us are sleeping

Karla’s Choice plays out as a clever, loving, sporadically tongue-in-cheek addition to the very best of John le Carré’s work

The memoir is less a life story than an investigation into the chain reaction of who (and how) the writer is

Hard by a Great Forest inspired vicarious travel