Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heather Parry’s fourth book Carrion Crow is a distressing, claustrophobic read. Set in London’s Chelsea ...

From the author of Orpheus Builds a Girl shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award Carrion Crow follows a young woman in an attic where she has been imprisoned by her mother for ...

Heather Parry’s Carrion Crow is an interesting and clever take on the form, which highlights both its strengths and weaknesses. “Victoriana” seems to relate to 19th century literature much ...

Majestic, ominous, rapacious and sagacious, with a coat the colour of night, perhaps no bird worldwide is so impressively freighted with lore as Corvus corax, the supreme member of the crow tribe.