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 ...

On her walks, she’s accompanied by two imaginary figures, the Scholar and the Seducer, for whom she confects novelistic scenes which assist her in deciding upon certain knotty problems ...

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 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 ...