This breezy slice of autofiction—which has echoes of works by authors such as Rachel Cusk—sees a writer shacking up in Paris. He’s in a part of the city far removed from the picture-postcard version beloved of ‘Emily in Paris’ or Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight i…

A plague on them all! Oops, sorry. Where was I? Here, maybe. Tommy Double-Barrelled Name recently went to Russia. He was invited by the relative of some tech millionaire billionaire trillionaire who has had his grubby fingers in so many pies, even he was …

‘Underdogs’ is the debut novel from Middlesbrough writer Louise Powell, and it captures life on the fringes, particularly among those drawn to the ‘flapping’—or independent greyhound racing—community. Reg is up to his eyes in red letters, but he hopes to…