Book Review: Helpless
/In a Victorian London gripped by the trial of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, someone is preying on young men, and Douglas Shrove, scion of an illustrious family, is next - and doesn't know who to trust.
Read MoreIn a Victorian London gripped by the trial of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, someone is preying on young men, and Douglas Shrove, scion of an illustrious family, is next - and doesn't know who to trust.
Read MoreWhen he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.
Read MoreThe paperback release of the Hollywood heartthrob's debut story collection
Read MoreThe latest in the ongoing adventures of Shakespeare - JOHN Shakespeare, master-spy to Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreA handsome new paperback of the book that gave birth to a multi-million dollar industry: the modern-day myth that is "Tarzan of the Apes."
Read MoreA paperback re-issue of the first instalment in the adventures of John Carter, gentleman of Virginia and superhuman warlord of distant Mars!
Read MoreLt. Peter Thornton of the 18th century British Navy has a problem more threatening than storms or pirates or cannon-fire: he's gay, and he's in love with his captain.
Read MoreA new history examines the problems the Allies faced when they took on the job of occupying a defeated Germany in 1945.
Read MoreA canny and engaging children's book about a pair of enterprising kids trying to make sense of a magical realm where their homework actually matters.
Read MoreA great translation of one of the "Four Great Classical Chinese Novels" is given a carefully-revised and gorgeously produced reprint by Tuttle Publishing.
Read MoreUnfamiliar characters like the Angel, the Phantom Bullet, and John Steele join the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America in the birth of the Marvel Age of Super-Heroes
Read MoreShe was married to two kings, reigned during the advent of trench warfare and the suppression of suffragettes, and stayed all her life a delightful dinner guest; A Year With the Windsors continues with the fascinating and fastidious Queen Mary.
Read MoreAn interview with the author of the debut novel "The Good Thief"
Read MoreA heartfelt novel tells the story of the "Good Thief" who was crucified alongside Jesus at Calvary.
Read MoreQueen of the Nile, Queen of the Damned? "Queen of Kings" teaches a valuable lesson about not judging a book by its killer hook.
Read MoreThe latest epic collection of fantasy art in the Spectrum series features hundreds of weird visions (and half a dozen very different trips over the rainbow).
Read MoreA massive, lively, entertaining work by Boccaccio that isn't "The Decameron"
Read MoreA new fantasy series about a sexy druid (two thousand years young) fighting supernatural threats in present-day Arizona.
Read MoreNew in paperback: a book that illuminates the slightly abstruse joys of scholarship.
Read MoreThe fabled Walter Simonson issues of "The Mighty Thor" are finally collected in one massive volume - and they've never looked better.
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