A.S.H. Smyth

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

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner reviewed

A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson reviewed