In Paperback: The Metamorphosis
/Kafka's immortal story about a man who wakes up one day and finds he's an insect gets a sterling new translation
Read MoreBook Review: The Emperor's Blades
/The engrossing first volume of a very promising new fantasy series
Read MoreBook Review: Orfeo
/A retired small-town music professor becomes an unlikely fugitive from the law in Richard Powers' latest novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Crane Wife
/When an ordinary man pulls an arrow from the wing of a crane, extraordinary things begin to happen in the new novel by Patrick Ness
Read MoreBook Review: Alena
/Don't be fooled by the "Rebecca" echoes - there's a lot more to Rachel Pastan's "Alena" than mere Manderley-redux
Read MoreBook Review: What Makes This Book So Great
/One of the brightest stars in the sci-fi/fantasy night sky writes about the interesting stuff she's been re-reading
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Heretics
/Now in paperback, the latest adventure of William Shakespeare's crime-sleuthing, spy-hunting brother John!
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Abelard in Four Dimensions
/If you're expecting Heloise to make an appearance in this captivating work of scholarship, you'll be disappointed - but not for long, since scholar John Marendbon manages quite well without her
Read MoreBook Review: How to Master Your Marquis
/A fiery German princess in disguise is hiding in London from the threat of an assassin - but her subterfuge throws her right into the arms of the most handsome man she's ever seen (who has dark secrets of his own, naturally, this being a romance novel and all!)
Read MoreBook Review: Leaving the Sea
/A new collection of old short stories from the writer of "The Flame Alphabet"
Read MoreBook Review: Saints of the Shadow Bible
/Three of Ian Rankin's most popular recurring characters come together in his irresistible latest novel
Read MoreBook Review: Danubia
/The sprawling, disjointed history of the Habsburg Empire forms the backdrop for Simon Winder's latest combination of history lesson and personal essay.
Read MoreBook Review: Poetry of Witness
/A hefty new anthology collects hundreds of years worth of poetry about the wars, pestilences, triumphs, and plagues poets endured and tried to capture in verse
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Delius in Norway
/Frederick Delius can be an acquired taste. Now a new recording tries to win listeners over with some of his most intriguing compositions. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: He Drank, and Saw the Spider
/Sixteen years ago, young mercenary Eddie LaCrosse saved a baby girl from an angry bear and found her a good home far from trouble - or so he thought. Sixteen years later, that baby girl is all grown up and at the heart of all the trouble in the world in Alex Bledsoe's latest nifty sword-and-sorcery novel
Read MoreBook Review: Under the Wide and Starry Sky
/From the best-selling author of "Loving Frank" comes the story of Fanny Osbourne, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson
Read MoreBook Review: The Devil's Breath
/As if our intrepid American-born doctor Thomas Silkstone didn't have enough problems on his hand, a great monstrous FOG is engulfing the English countryside!
Read MoreBook Review: David Hume, Historical Thinker, Historical Writer
/The philosopher who wrote "A Treatise on Human Nature" was famous in his own lifetime for an immense work of quite a different nature; a new book looks again at "The History of England"
Read MoreBook Review: The Monkey's Voyage
/What explains the similarities of animal forms scattered across the wide expanses of the world? A terrific new book makes the case that life persistently wanders.
Read MoreBook Review: The Ascendant
/A cocky young Wall Street analyst makes a discovery that could point to a new and deadly kind of war
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