Now in Paperback: Berlin at War
/An exceptionally powerful history of Berlin's rise and fall during the course of World War Two
Read MoreBook Review: Songs of the Earth
/The valiant young hero of Elspeth Cooper's debut novel must flee from a Church that condemns his growing energy-powers as evil ...
Read MoreBook Review: Mutants & Mystics
/A new book explores the connections between superhero comics and the extraordinary beliefs of some of their creators
Read MoreBook Review: Human Rights Watch World Report, 2012
/The latest World Report of the Human Rights Watch draws a sobering - but still hopeful - picture of mankind in 2011
Read MoreBook Review: Love, Fiercely
/He was a taciturn, bookish heir to staggering wealth; she was a high-spirited nonconformist 'new woman' - and, in a lost era of privilege and social progress, they were very much in love.
Read MoreBook Review: Empire of Shadows
/A new book dramatizes the adventurous - and bloody - opening of the American West.
Read MoreWhen She Was Lost
/One hundred years ago this month, the luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, with the loss of over 1500 lives. The centenary has released a flood of books, including some gems not to be missed.
Read MoreBook Review: The Crimes of Elagabalus
/A solid, enjoyable new biography of one of ancient Rome's most notorious gay teen-emperors!
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite
/A big new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, whose vivid and dreamlike artwork caught the sentimentality of his time and shaped it to immortal perfection.
Read MoreBook Review: Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes
/A perceptive new study of the effects a cataclysmic earthquake had on a tottering regime in China
Read MoreBook Review: The Forest Unseen
/An enchantingly small focus creates a modern-day masterpiece of natural history
Read MoreBook Review: Restless in the Grave
/The latest Kate Shugak murder mystery features small town Alaska, bush pilot sabotage, and one heck of a sexy state trooper!
Read MoreBook Review: Tutankhamen
/Any new study of Tutankhamen faces an array of obstacles - some more familiar than others.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Hemlock Cup
/Now in paperback: one of the best books ever written about the life and times of Socrates
Read MoreBook Review: The Inquisitor
/A new thriller features an implacable torturer-for-hire as its problematic protagonist.
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost History of 1914
/A new look at the outbreak of World War I reminds readers of the individual people involved - and presents some intriguing might-have-beens.
Read MoreIn Theaters: John Carter
/The new movie "John Carter" has spawned a dozen reprints of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs stories - including the official Disney tie-in featuring both the screenplay novelization and the debut ERB novel
Read MoreNow in Paperback: A Princess of Mars
/Edgar Rice Burroughs' debut John Carter novel, "A Princess of Mars," gets a vivid new comic book adaptation
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The View From Lazy Point
/A paperback reprint of a modern nature classic
Read MoreNow in Paperback: DC Universe Legacies
/A new paperback edition of the once-definitive history of DC superheroes
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