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 MoreProlific author Richard Ellis returns with a gripping new book about the monster from Melville, the mysterious and majestic sperm whale.
Read MoreDavid 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 MoreA 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 MoreIn 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 MoreNorse saga and werewolf yarn combine in the debut of a fast-paced, smart, and violent new fantasy series.
Read MoreThe rabble-rousing jeremiad is alive and well in the self-publishing world, as this new anti-politician broadside demonstrates!
Read MoreThe dashing, omni-competent Will Swyfte returns to swash some further buckles in Mark Chadbourn's new alternate-history fantasy novel.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreC.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 MoreA favorite from the thriving genre of fiction based on the Man of Steel is reissued by Ballantine Books
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreTeenage 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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