Book Review: The Insect Farm
/Two brothers - one simple-minded, the other quite possibly devious - are at the heart of Stuart Prebble's new thriller
Read MoreBook Review: The Summer of Good Intentions
/Three sisters and their various husbands and children gather at the family's inviting old Cape Cod vacation home, where they face drama, revelation, heartache, and maybe personal re-invention.
Read MoreBook Review: Newport
/A wealthy family in dazzling 1920s Newport, Rhode Island faces problems and revelations in both the material world of their huge estate - and also in the spirit world, where secrets will be revealed
Read MoreBook Review: The Exchange of Princesses
/In the early 1720s, the regent of France risked both his young king and his young daughter on high-stakes international gambles in the ongoing War of Succession; a sparkling new novel dramatizes the events
Read MoreThe Book and the Boy
/A thousand years ago, a refined lady at the Japanese Court wrote the first and one of the greatest novels of all time, The Tale of Genji; Dennis Washburn does the latest translation of this immense work, with stunning results.
Read MoreBook Review: People of the Songtrail
/Fifteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of northeastern Canada encounter intruders from over the sea: Vikings
Read MoreBook Review: The Melody Lingers On
/A rich investment swindler disappears on his boat - and with a great chunk of his ill-gotten gains - and the plot is afoot in the latest thriller from Mary Higgins Clark
Read MoreBook Review: Margaret of Anjou
/In Iggulden's ongoing series about the Wars of the Roses, England's Queen Margaret struggles to hold onto her power - and her life - even as her husband the king slips in and out of sanity
Read MoreBook Review: In the Unlikely Event
/A New Jersey town repeatedly struck by falling planes is the setting for Judy Blume's new book
Read MoreBook Review: Death and Mr. Pickwick
/An ambitious debut novel explores the world that gave birth to the meteoric career of Charles Dickens and his lesser-known competitors
Read MoreBook Review: The Islanders
/A woman dies in Versailles, and her death sets in motion a tangled plot connecting a small group of people in this 2010 novel by Pascal Garnier
Read MoreBook Review: The Wolf Border
/The effort of an eccentric earl to re-introduce wolves to England draws a zoologist back to the home she left years before
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfortunates
/The steely matriarch of a wealthy family is losing both her health and her control over her family in this sharp debut novel by Sophie McManus
Read MoreBook Review: The Eye Stone
/A young monk goes on a desperate quest in the 12th century - to a fable city called Venetia
Read MoreBook Review: An Ember in the Ashes
/A plucky, unlikely teen heroine and a brooding, idealistic teen hero form an unlikely relationship as they fight the oppression of their world in ... well, every single YA novel ever written, including this one.
Read MoreBook Review: The Vorrh
/At the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.
Read MoreBook Review: Colossus
/An Indian driver and his enormous war-elephant experience the treacheries and triumphs of Alexander the Great's Babylon campaign
Read MoreBook Review: You Will Never Find Me
/Charles Boxer and Mercy Danquah are both kidnap specialists who've solved many tough cases. But in their latest, the missing person is their own daughter - and she doesn't want to be found
Read MoreBook Review: The Death's Head Chess Club
/Two men meet by chance in a 1960s cafe - and remember a time twenty years earlier when they were captor and prisoner at Auschwitz
Read MoreBook Review: Vanishing
/Is the artist painting heath landscapes in England during World War II a mild-mannered hero of military campaigns or a spy? Gerard Woodward's spellbinding novel starts there and then travels over the whole of an improbable life story
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