Robbie Millen

“If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is: ‘What’s your business?’ In Macon they ask: ‘Where do you go to church?’ In Augusta they ask your gr

Lives big and small, short and long are chronicled here. A cancer-struck doctor facing his mortality; a lost young man in search of his next chemical fix; a gam

Wars break out in August. In the literary world hostilities have erupted, conducted with maximum force by open letters and tweets. Let’s call this present confl

A chilling historical novel follows the Nazi war criminal through his three decades evading justice in South America. Review by Robbie Millen

It’s December, you’re standing in a bookshop, bewildered by the great piles before you. It’s overwhelming; you can’t remember which books are supposed to be go

Welcome to The Times and The Sunday Times list of the best books of the year. Our expert critics have trawled through the thousands of books published in 2020 t

’Some things few people get to witness, and most of them wish they hadn’t. Like jazz dancing. Or the pope’s sex face.”“A vajazzle on a nun, pretty to picture, but who really benefits?”“I’m half-lesbian on my mother’s side. Or does that count for nothing?”That’s a little of the wit and wisdom of Jac

Should we go lapdancing or lap dancing? Is that stink foetid or fetid? Should Boris Johnson be foreign secretary or Foreign Secretary? These questions rightly

I can read without moving my lips. I’m a big boy, so I don’t need to use my finger to follow sentences on the page. However, there comes a moment when your reading comprehension skills fail you and

Social historyThe Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian TinniswoodThis beautifully illustrated book is a gallop through the mansions, manors, castles and palaces