Out of all the words I churned through while considering how to describe this novel the one that rose to the top was ‘sinister’. “In the...

The year is 1606. James VI of Scotland has been James I of England for three years. Shakespeare writes King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and...

translated by Frank Wynne This book is French. Of course it is. Where else would a novel quite overtly written as a vehicle for telling...