BOOK JACK

Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time turns a hospital-room investigation into a sharp, enduring meditation on Richard III, Tudor propaganda, and how easily accepted history can harden into myth.

Margaret Tait’s sole feature film, Blue Black Permanent, is a lyrical and deeply unsettling meditation on motherhood, depression, memory, and the pull of the sea—part family chronicle, part feminist mystery, and one of Scotland’s great overlooked films.

A critical review of Michiko Aoyama’s What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, exploring why its comforting premise and bestseller reputation may not work for every reader.

Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale is a richly atmospheric gothic novel filled with family secrets, unreliable stories, old houses, and a mystery that lingers long after the final page.