Patrika Salmon
A Voyage Long and Strange : Rediscovering the New World
Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with a penchant for history. He also likes to re-examine all…
The Great Wall
Man doesn’t mince words. This is another author anxious to show that well- established ideas are more historical myth…
Siege of Heaven
Harper writes about that charade of religious fervour, the First Crusade of 1096-98, in all its ghastly violence and hypocrisy.…
The Painted Lady
This is Restoration comedy, the eighth whodunit in the popular Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the young architect, is making his…
The Apostate’s Tale
Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some…
The Fire Waker
The second in what, judging by the last page, is intended to be a series, The Fire Waker should have…
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic.…
Lavinia
Editors' choice
I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world…
The End of East
Lee’s book, first published in Canada by Knopf as a “New Faces of Fiction” novel, is her first novel, full…
The Misremembered Man
I could never laugh at “Fawlty Towers.” John Cleese’s performance as a man falling apart was painful for me, not…
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