Now in Paperback: The Annotated Origin
/Now published in paperback: a fantastic annotated edition of Charles Darwin's eternally-relevant bombshell, "On the Origin of Species"
Read MoreBook Review: She-Wolves
/An immensely enjoyable new book looks at four women who ruled England in the centuries before Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreReview of A Fortunate Age
/Steve 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 MoreBook Review: Faith
/In 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 MoreGrandpapa England
/In 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
Read MoreBook Review: The Great Sperm Whale
/Prolific author Richard Ellis returns with a gripping new book about the monster from Melville, the mysterious and majestic sperm whale.
Read MoreBook Review: The Social Animal
/David Brooks' new book presents us with Harold and Erica, two characters who are meant to represent the way we live now. The results are quasi-fictional, at best.
Read MoreBook Review: The Queen's Rival
/A novel about the woman who came heart-breakingly close to founding a new Tudor dynasty.
Read MoreA provocative and fascinating new book challenges what we think we know about the causes and nature of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: Boswell's London Journal
/In his early 20s, James Boswell kept a journal of his riotous, entertaining life in London, and it's now in an updated version from Penguin Classics.
Read MoreBook Review: Wolfsangel
/Norse saga and werewolf yarn combine in the debut of a fast-paced, smart, and violent new fantasy series.
Read MoreBook Review: Government in the Clouds
/The rabble-rousing jeremiad is alive and well in the self-publishing world, as this new anti-politician broadside demonstrates!
Read MoreBook Review: The Scar-Crow Men
/The dashing, omni-competent Will Swyfte returns to swash some further buckles in Mark Chadbourn's new alternate-history fantasy novel.
Read MoreMary Chesnut's Diary
/The famous Civil War diarist, whose eloquent pessimism was given voice in Ken Burns's "The Civil War", receives a much-needed repackaging by Penguin Classics
Read MoreThe Tudor Secret, by C.W. Gortner
/C.W. Gortner kicks off his potboiling Tudor chronicles with a fast-paced novel of conspiracy (and, of course, shrouded paternity) in the court of Edward VI
Read MoreReview of It's Superman!, by Tom De Haven
/A favorite from the thriving genre of fiction based on the Man of Steel is reissued by Ballantine Books
Read MorePrince Eddy and the Blackguards
/When the heir presumptive, Prince Eddy, died suddenly, the nation and empire was convulsed with mourning - and a century of speculation began! Had the lost prince been a simpleton, a saint, a catamite - even Jack the Ripper?
Read MoreWife Number Five
/Teenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
Read More“My Job Is to Be King"
/When the long reign of Victoria ended, her son took the throne with a bonhomie the country hadn't seen in a century. The new king ate and entertained prodigiously - and mediated prodigiously as "the uncle of Europe." A Year with the Windsors looks at Edward VII.
Read MoreHistory Without the Moon
/Her reign was epic in length and social impact, but it very nearly didn't happen at all. She ruled through two generations of her people, and she left the British monarchy very different from how she found it. She is Queen Victoria, and our Year with the Windsors starts as it must: with her.
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