The same is true of Leonora Nattrass, who in her wonderfully evocative Scarlet Town (Viper, £16.99) confects a quintessentially 18th-century plot that sees the only two voters in a rotten borough ...

The events leading up to July 1978 and the birth in Manchester of the world’s first “test tube baby” — the tabloid term for the process known more soberly as IVF (in vitro fertilization ...

Other than this, there's not a lot of conflict in the story. Jack Thorne's screenplay confects a bit of mild tension between ...

Other than this, there’s not a lot of conflict in the story. Jack Thorne’s screenplay confects a bit of mild tension between Purdy and Edwards, whom she accuses of seeing his patients as ...

Other than this, there’s not a lot of conflict in the story. Jack Thorne’s screenplay confects a bit of mild tension between Purdy and Edwards, whom she accuses of seeing his patients as statistics ...