Classics Reissued: A Legacy
/Sybille Bedford's great novel - now in a pretty reprint from the New York Review of Books - has the sweep of Edward Gibbon and the emotional vitality of Jane Austen. Robert Minto takes a new look at a classic.
Read MoreBook Review: People of the Songtrail
/Fifteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of northeastern Canada encounter intruders from over the sea: Vikings
Read MoreBook Review: The Melody Lingers On
/A rich investment swindler disappears on his boat - and with a great chunk of his ill-gotten gains - and the plot is afoot in the latest thriller from Mary Higgins Clark
Read MoreBook Review: Domesticated
/Tens of thousands of years ago, humans domesticated canines and thereby changed the dynamics of life on earth - a change humanity then continued by domesticating other species. A fascinating new book details the process
Read MoreBook Review: The Upright Thinkers
/Millions of years ago, hominids began walking upright - thus expanding their field of view and freeing their hands for mischief and took-making. A new book celebrates the result.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Human Universe
/Now in paperback in the US: the companion book to the popular BBC science program hosted by physicist Brian Cox
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/James Horner
Read MoreBook Review: Byron's Letters & Journals
/Byron the poet was also Byron the prolific correspondent and diarist, as a generous and learned new collection amply demonstrates
Read MoreBook Review: How Britain Saved the West
/For a key interval in 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany at its peak - and that familiar story of determination and ultimate victory is the subject of Robin Prior's new book
Read MoreBook Review: The World Beyond Your Head
/The "ecologies of attention and action" form the dynamic heart of philosopher Matthew Crawford's new book. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Change
/In a generous new anthology, a group of talented authors tells stories set in the "Emberverse" of S. M. Stirling - an Earth where all technology has abruptly stopped working
Read MoreBook Review: Margaret of Anjou
/In Iggulden's ongoing series about the Wars of the Roses, England's Queen Margaret struggles to hold onto her power - and her life - even as her husband the king slips in and out of sanity
Read MoreBook Review: In the Unlikely Event
/A New Jersey town repeatedly struck by falling planes is the setting for Judy Blume's new book
Read MoreBook Review: Charles I & The People of England
/How did the dynamics of kingship apply to a distant and socially maladroit little creature like King Charles I? A terrific new book looks at personality and power in the Stuart era
Read MoreBook Review: Storm and Steel
/A former slave in a brutal empire is now wielding both political and magical power the second volume in Jon Sprunk's hugely enjoyable "Book of the Black Earth" series
Read MoreBook Review: Death and Mr. Pickwick
/An ambitious debut novel explores the world that gave birth to the meteoric career of Charles Dickens and his lesser-known competitors
Read MoreBook Review: Nixon's Nuclear Specter
/At the height of the Vietnam War, President Nixon engaged in an incredibly risky game of nuclear brinksmanship - a richly-researched new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: Yanks in the RAF
/While America was still technically neutral in Great Britain's fight against Germany, a handful of American flyers traveled to England and volunteered to fly in the RAF - a fascinating new book tells their story
Read MoreBook Review: Multitudinous Heart
/A sumptuous new bilingual edition of the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Read MoreBook Review: The Islanders
/A woman dies in Versailles, and her death sets in motion a tangled plot connecting a small group of people in this 2010 novel by Pascal Garnier
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