Abby Reinhard is a writer, editor, and native Jersey Girl. Before Best Life, she was working in medical writing, ...

Forty-six books (23 fiction, 23 nonfiction) have been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for ...

The Ministry of Time is her debut novel, widely acclaimed as exciting, clever, funny and gripping - ‘a little time-bomb of a book’ according to the writer Francis Spufford. It was shortlisted ...

But to describe it as just that would not convey its quality. As Francis Spufford remarks, when people read of those fearful expeditions to the North or South Pole or in search of the Northwest ...

And a ridiculously prolonged opening sentence, from which Mr Smith would emerge at a run, never to stop running until the last words of the last line of the last paragraph . . . This limited-run ...

The death of a fictional character can mark the point at which a writer’s imagination has run dry – a corner cut in the search for pathos – but in Francis Spufford’s new novel, the opposite is the ...