Book Review: The Exceptions
/The son of a powerful crime family falls in love with a young woman in the Witness Protection Program - a young woman his family wants dead! Don't you hate it when that happens?
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Bloodlands
/A stark and powerful account of the killing regimes of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia - and of the blood-soaked stretch of middle Europe where those regimes did their work.
Read MoreBook Review: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?
/A slim, engaging new book tries to take an objective look at the popular question of Shakespearean authorship - if such objectivity is even possible.
Read MoreDog-torturer Michael Vick writes a triumphalist come-back memoir.
Read MoreBook Review: The Christmas Carol Murders
/A Dickens-obsessed little Oregon town plays unwilling host to - what else? - a Dickens-themed murder in this captivating mystery debut
Read MoreBook Review: Beyond Rosie the Riveter
/During World War Two, thousands of men left U.S. jobs in order to join the military - and thousands of women stepped in to fill those jobs ... and in some cases join the military too. A fascinating new book looks at what magazine cartoons had to say about all this.
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Eye (Raven, Book One)
/Now in the U.S.: an epic, gore-spattered series about a roving band of Viking warriors!
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfaithful Queen
/Young, vain, unfaithful Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, regularly draws writers intent on finding heroism in her brief life & times; Carolly Erickson is the latest aspirant.
Read MoreBook Review: I, Jane
/The meek and dutiful Jane Seymour, mother of Henry VIII's long-sought male heir, takes center stage in a new historical novel about her life and times.
Read MoreBook Review: Mistress of Mourning
/Tragedy haunted the earliest years of the new Tudor dynasty, and in this atmospheric new novel, a candle-maker and a courier are tasked with finding out why.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Song of Wrath
/The ancient Greek historian Thucydides is virtually synonymous with the Peloponnesian War, but a new history gives the master a much-needed makeover
Read MoreComics: Namor Visionaries, Vol. 2
/From the glory days of the late 1980s comes this new reprint-volume of the adventures of Marvel Comics' imperious, headstrong super-merman, Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner!
Read MoreEmma: An Annotated Edition
/Belknap Press produces a big, attractive, and lovingly annotated edition of Jane Austen's peak-of-her-career novel "Emma" - perfect for newcomers and those who know every line by heart.
Read MoreBook Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ
/In a slim new volume, one of our greatest masters of vibrant exegesis gives is the collected poetry of "the invisible poet of the world" - Jesus Christ.
Read MoreBook Review: The Caliph's Splendor
/One of our best popular historians sheds light on the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid, where learning and culture flourished at a time when the West was mired in filth and chaos.
Read MoreBook Review: Kiss of Steel
/The melodramatic first novel in a series set in a vampire-ridden steampunk version of Victorian London
Read MoreNow in Paperback: King Stephen
/Now in paperback: the most comprehensive, opinionated, and even-handed biography poor unlucky oath-breaking King Stephen is ever likely to get - or deserve.
Read MoreBook Review: Reaper
/A fast-paced teen fiction re-imagining of Peter Pan and Wendy and the Lost Boys and Neverland, with a few side-helpings of goth, "Buffy," and a certain boy wizard
Read MoreBook Review: Legions of Rome
/A comprehensive - and visually stunning - overview of the mighty Roman legions and the world they helped to shape.
Read MoreBook Review: Master and God
/An ambitious historical novel about the dark days of the emperor Domitian by the popular mystery author Lindsey Davis.
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