The first sentence of any piece of writing is arguably the most important – both in terms of hooking the reader in and of doing justice to the body of work that it is introducing.

The lockdown should be the perfect time to catch up with all those books you’ve always meant to read but never had time so to help you forget your worries, my top 10 romantic reads.
Prepare to fall in love.

Simon Caroll takes a look of Good versus evil. Whatever the genre romance, fantasy or detective fiction – many of our favourite stories involve a sublime double act of a hero and villain, characters that inhabit our minds and linger in the imagination long after the tale is over.