Book Review: The Great Sperm Whale
/Prolific author Richard Ellis returns with a gripping new book about the monster from Melville, the mysterious and majestic sperm whale.
Read MoreBook Review: The Social Animal
/David Brooks' new book presents us with Harold and Erica, two characters who are meant to represent the way we live now. The results are quasi-fictional, at best.
Read MoreBook Review: The Queen's Rival
/A novel about the woman who came heart-breakingly close to founding a new Tudor dynasty.
Read MoreA provocative and fascinating new book challenges what we think we know about the causes and nature of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: Boswell's London Journal
/In his early 20s, James Boswell kept a journal of his riotous, entertaining life in London, and it's now in an updated version from Penguin Classics.
Read MoreBook Review: Wolfsangel
/Norse saga and werewolf yarn combine in the debut of a fast-paced, smart, and violent new fantasy series.
Read MoreBook Review: Government in the Clouds
/The rabble-rousing jeremiad is alive and well in the self-publishing world, as this new anti-politician broadside demonstrates!
Read MoreBook Review: The Scar-Crow Men
/The dashing, omni-competent Will Swyfte returns to swash some further buckles in Mark Chadbourn's new alternate-history fantasy novel.
Read MoreMary Chesnut's Diary
/The famous Civil War diarist, whose eloquent pessimism was given voice in Ken Burns's "The Civil War", receives a much-needed repackaging by Penguin Classics
Read MoreThe Tudor Secret, by C.W. Gortner
/C.W. Gortner kicks off his potboiling Tudor chronicles with a fast-paced novel of conspiracy (and, of course, shrouded paternity) in the court of Edward VI
Read MoreReview of It's Superman!, by Tom De Haven
/A favorite from the thriving genre of fiction based on the Man of Steel is reissued by Ballantine Books
Read MorePrince Eddy and the Blackguards
/When the heir presumptive, Prince Eddy, died suddenly, the nation and empire was convulsed with mourning - and a century of speculation began! Had the lost prince been a simpleton, a saint, a catamite - even Jack the Ripper?
Read MoreWife Number Five
/Teenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
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