Author Interview: Barry Connolly
/An interview with the author of the debut novel "The Good Thief"
Read MoreAn interview with the author of the debut novel "The Good Thief"
Read MoreA heartfelt novel tells the story of the "Good Thief" who was crucified alongside Jesus at Calvary.
Read MoreQueen of the Nile, Queen of the Damned? "Queen of Kings" teaches a valuable lesson about not judging a book by its killer hook.
Read MoreThe latest epic collection of fantasy art in the Spectrum series features hundreds of weird visions (and half a dozen very different trips over the rainbow).
Read MoreA massive, lively, entertaining work by Boccaccio that isn't "The Decameron"
Read MoreA new fantasy series about a sexy druid (two thousand years young) fighting supernatural threats in present-day Arizona.
Read MoreNew in paperback: a book that illuminates the slightly abstruse joys of scholarship.
Read MoreThe fabled Walter Simonson issues of "The Mighty Thor" are finally collected in one massive volume - and they've never looked better.
Read MoreAn excellent new biography gives us the man behind the so-called Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck
Read MoreThe first volume of a fantasy series set in a richly-imagined world of woolly mammoths and exotic tribesmen.
Read MoreA new collection of short stories is set in an American West that's masculinely bleak - or is it bleakly masculine?
Read MoreThe first book in a new vampire series shows all the veteran author's signature strengths.
Read MoreOverlook Press publishes a powerful and disturbing posthumous work by Andre Schwarz-Bart, author of the masterpiece "The Last of the Just"
Read MoreAn interesting - if problematic - collection of short stories by the author of "Metrophilias"
Read MoreNow published in paperback: a fantastic annotated edition of Charles Darwin's eternally-relevant bombshell, "On the Origin of Species"
Read MoreAn immensely enjoyable new book looks at four women who ruled England in the centuries before Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreSteve Donoghue grapples with the initial irritations and eventual pleasures of Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age: "The process that changes your reaction will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been seduced by New York (a sordid, delectable experience that can happen repeatedly throughout your life – and against which there is no known vaccine)."
Read MoreIn her latest novel, Jennifer Haigh explores the impact of the Boston Catholic Church sex abuse scandal on the lives of one close-knit family.
Read MoreIn The King's Speech, King George V is depicted as a fanatical tyrant; but his legacy is one of dignified flexibility in the face of revolutionary changes, and his temperament may have helped save the monarchy
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