Two Scots lads have a lovely weekend in Manchester in 1986. 30 years later, a phone rings: as they remember the euphoria of their youth, the costs of life are revealed.
Prepare for confusion. The novelist won the Booker Prize in 2005 for 'The Sea'. He has also written several crime novels using the pseudonym Benjamin Black. Now he has written a crime novel... read more
It's only six years since his magisterial biography of Beethoven, which seemed a lifetime's work. To do the same so quickly for Mozart seems nothing short of miraculous. NB due for publicati... read more