Former cyclist Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their burning home, he was, tragically, too late – but hailed a hero. Or that was the story until it emerged that ...

Burn After Reading is another lively and often funny thriller from Catherine Ryan Howard, following an Irish writer sent to Florida to ghostwrite the memoir of a now infamous cyclist wanting to ...

Catherine Ryan Howard: ‘It seemed ridiculous that an Irish ... which is what the judge called Bundy at his murder trial, after he’d been convicted. A (male) critic once tut-tutted about ...