Book Review: The Queen's Dwarf
/A quick-witted and bilingual dwarf is planted in the household of England's foreign queen in order to spy on her - but he comes to esteem her, outcast to outcast
Read MoreBook Review: Girl on the Golden Coin
/An exceptional beauty entices King Charles II and ascends to the heights of the Merry Monarch's court
Read MoreBook Review: The Waking Engine
/In an amazing science fiction debut, a New Yorker awakens in a strange new world
Read MoreBook Review: The Counterfeit Agent
/CIA super-agent John Wells needs to get back in the field and feel the old adrenaline pumping again - but will his latest adventure (featuring a dastardly nuclear plot and a shadowy female operative with a Biblical code-name) be more than he bargained for?
Read MoreBook Review: Faisal I of Iraq
/A key figure in the founding of the modern Middle East finally gets his definitive English-language biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Dream of the Great American Novel
/The Scarlet Letter? Moby-Dick? Gone with the Wind? Gravity's Rainbow? Just what IS the "Great American Novel" anyway?
Read MoreBook Review: The Depths
/Jonathan Rottenberg's new book contends that the modern world's epidemic of depression is made all the worse by society's tendency to stigmatize the victims themselves
Read MoreBook Review: Dancing Fish and Ammonites
/Long-time novelist Penelope Lively turns 80 - and turns to memoir-writing
Read MoreBook Review: Raiders of the Nile
/In Alexandria as a young man, Gordianus the Finder gets caught up in an elaborate scheme to steal the corpse of Alexander the Great!
Read MoreBook Review: The Martian
/An unassuming botanist gets separated from his exploration team and finds himself stranded alone on Mars - and his survival rests entirely in his own hands.
Read MoreBook Review: Hundred Days
/The vivid story of the months when the long, slogging stalemate of the First World War exploded into violence
Read MoreIn Paperback: On Reading "The Grapes of Wrath"
/John Steinbeck's bestselling and universally-lauded novel gets a passionate and persuasive reading by a renowned Steinbeck scholar
Read MoreBook Review: Must Love Dukes
/The lovers in Elizabeth Michels' new novel get off to a rapturous, then a rocky start - and when next they meet, a year later, the real games begin
Read MoreBook Review: Much Ado About Jack
/A strong-willed countess and a dynamic sailor become Shakespearean-style star-crossed lovers in Christy English's latest novel
Read MoreBook Review: Romancing the Duke
/The daughter of a famous novelist has her own life take on a decidedly fairy-tale twist in Tessa Dare's new novel
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Homesman
/A strong woman and a weak man must make a perilous journey from the Western frontier to the East Coast in Glendon Swarthout's newly-reissued classic novel
Read MoreBook Review: Like a Mighty Army
/Armies clash and the technological stakes are raised in the latest installment in David Weber's rip-roaring "Safehold" series
Read MoreBook Review: The Deliverance of Evil
/A young woman is murdered on the eve of Italy's tumultuous win in the 1982 World Cup - and then 24 years later, on the eve of another World Cup victory, more bodies start turning up, and it's up to one haunted, damaged cop to piece the mystery together (hint: it's not hooligans)
Read MoreBook Review: My Name is Resolute
/The life of one remarkable woman - told against the backdrop of American colonies boiling toward revolution - forms the narrative of Nancy Turner's sumptuously old-fashioned new historical novel
Read MoreBook Review: James & Dolley Madison
/A new dual-biography of James Madison and his wife Dolley sees them through some of fledgling America's most trying times
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