Book Review: A Clue to the Exit
/A sarcastic screenwriter learns he has only six months to live in this reprinted novel from Edward St. Aubyn from 2000
Read MoreBook Review: The Gates of Evangeline
/A mother grieving the loss of her own son investigates the 30-year-old disappearance of a powerful Southern family's little boy in this haunting debut
Read MoreBook Review: Mycroft Holmes
/A debut adventure starring the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes
Read MoreBook Review: The Automobile Club of Egypt
/The celebrated author of "The Yacoubian Building" returns with another panoramic look at life in modern Egypt during a pivotal era
Read MoreBook Review: The Daughters
/In Adrienne Celt's remarkably rich debut novel, an opera singer is worried that the birth of her daughter has robbed her of her singing voice
Read MoreBook Review: Beirut, Beirut
/Bloomsbury publishes a lovely new English-language translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's great novel about the Lebanese Civil War
Read MoreBook Review: The Casualties
/You wouldn't bet on a little street in Edinburgh - or its eccentric inhabitants - surviving a series of world-battering catastrophes, but that's both the starting and the ending point of Nick Holdstock's fascinating first novel
Read MoreBook Review: Under Tiberius
/In a dusty Vatican archive, an ancient manuscript is found that could change the world. Or whatever.
Read MoreBook Review: No. 4 Imperial Lane
/The woes of empire and the decline of the aristocracy form the backdrop for Jonathan Weisman's smart and moving debut novel, set in Thatcher's England.
Read MoreBook Review: Still Life Las Vegas
/In this funny and touching debut, a young man's search for his missing mother leads to unexpected discoveries amid the lights of Las Vegas
Read MoreBook Review: The Madagaskar Plan
/In an alternate history in which an undefeated Nazi Germany controls vast portions of Africa, a cast of old friends and enemies come together amid rumors of a devastating new kind of bomb ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Blooding
/Matthew Hawkwood, James McGee's super-competent soldier-turned-spy, returns in another adventure, this time trapped in America during the War of 1812
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers in Blood
/In the latest Roman historical novel from old pro Simon Scarrow, two heroic legionaries are chasing an infamous local warlord in Britannia - and facing treachery from within their own ranks
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Leaves Falling
/A teenager in Kyoto tries to face the last months of his life as a samurai would - with a little help from his friends
Read MoreBook Review: The Meursault Investigation
/The famous bloody encounter at the center of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger is re-imagined from a new perspective in Kamel Daoud's widely-praised debut
Read MoreBook Review: The Black Coat
/In the wake of Bangladesh's bloody Liberation War, a hapless nonentity suddenly finds himself impersonating a beloved national leader
Read MoreBook Review: Pretty Is
/Years ago, two young girls were abducted and held for two months by a mysterious stranger; in the present, in Maggie Mitchell's terrific debut novel, these women are now confronted with the suspicion that a part of their childhood ordeal is very much alive.
Read MoreBook Review: The War at the Edge of the World
/A decorated Roman soldier accompanies a dangerous mission into barbarian territory in 4th century Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The Captive Condition
/The forgotten Midwestern town of Normandy Falls becomes the setting for an increasingly horrifying - and surreal - series of events in Kevin Keating's outstanding new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hostile Takeover
/In "Hostile Takeover," Shane Kuhn provides a raucous follow-up to his popular novel "The Intern's Handbook"
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