Maeve Binchy
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Anthology Review: London - A History in Verse
/A sprawling new celebration of London in six centuries of verse!
Read MoreBook Review: The Black Rhinos of Namibia
/A gorgeously-written new book on the vanishing black rhinos of south-western Africa
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Fevre Dream
/A new reprint delivers George R. R. Martin's science fiction novel about 19th century American vampires!
Read MoreBook Review: Conquest
/For thirty hard-fought years, the King of England was also the King of France - new in US bookstores is a thrilling account of those years
Read MoreBook Review: The Second World War
/A magisterial new one-volume history of the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
/The novel's greatest age gets a stunning, multi-voiced celebration
Read MoreBook Review: Three A.M.
/In a fog-enshrouded city, a tough PI takes on a case that changes everything.
Read MoreBook Review: Equal of the Sun
/16th Century Iran comes alive in a new novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Taste of War
/A new book looks at the foremost weapon in war's arsenal: food.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Last Divine Office
/The bishops of Durham Cathedral were also secular princes who could settle legal disputes - and raise armies. A study now out in paperback gives the mighty cathedral and priory the history they deserve.
Read MoreBook Review: Wake of the Bloody Angel
/The latest adventure featuring freelance 'sword jockey' Eddie LaCrosse is - avast! - a rollicking pirate-yarn!
Read MoreComics: Essential Spider-Man Volume 11
/The latest volume of Marvel's "Essential" reprint line!
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Storm of War
/A new one-volume history of the Second World War ends with the big question: could the bad guys have won?
Read MoreBook Review: Wellington's Wars
/A new - and sometimes unforgiving - military history of the Iron Duke!
Read MoreAnthology Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction 29
/The latest edition of the venerable science fiction anthology series!
Read MoreWhat the Duchess of Argyll's Maid told Dicky Pigg-Wilcott's Valet at Ascot in '08!
/Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was a cherished and beloved fixture of the British royal family for almost a century (and would certainly have stolen the show at her daughter's Diamond Jubilee, had she lived to see it) - but a new book claims the Queen Mum was just an ordinary human being - and not always a very nice one
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