Book Review: Lockstep
/When a tech-savvy young man wakes up fourteen thousand years after entering suspended animation, he finds the galaxy radically altered - and his brother firmly in charge
Read MoreBook Review: The Barrow
/Ancient magic talismans are almost always more trouble than they're worth, but that doesn't deter the rag-tag group of anti-heroes in Mark Smylie's energetically readable debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: A King's Ransom
/The larger-than-life story of captivity and struggles of King Richard the Lionheart
Read MoreBook Review: The Day of the Dead
/A dead street-boy haunts the latest adventure of Commissario Ricciardi in this series set in 1930s Naples
Read MoreBook Review: The Land of Steady Habits
/An affluent suburban family breaks apart and re-forms in this remarkably assured debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Headmaster's Wife
/The confession of a man found wandering naked in Central Park grows more and more problematic as it unfolds
Read MoreBook Review: Cambridge
/A precocious young girl and her family travel far and wide from her beloved home of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Read MoreBook Review: Words of Radiance
/Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series set on a storm-raked world continues
Read MoreBook Review: Road to Reckoning
/A twelve-year-old boy gains the assistance of a weathered ex-ranger in this tale of a rapidly-vanishing Old West
Read MoreBook Review: Murder at Cape Three Points
/A dogged police inspector investigates two gruesome murders at the heart of Ghana's booming new oil economy
Read MoreBook Review: From the Tree to the Labyrinth
/If the idea of a big collection of writings about socio-linguistics by the author of "The Name of the Rose" strikes you as a winning way to spend a weekend, Harvard University Press has some good news for you.
Read MoreBook Review: A Darkling Sea
/A murder at the bottom of an alien ocean looks likely to spark an interstellar war
Read MoreBook Review: An Explorer's Notebook
/An exuberant collection of essays and reviews by trailblazing natural historian Tim Flannery
Read MoreBook Review: A Burnable Book
/14th century court poet John Gower is brought in by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer to solve the mystery of a book whose very existence threatens the realm
Read MoreBook Review: Why Kings Confess
/A seemingly random murder leads our hero Sebastian St. Cyr into the dark and dangerous world of international espionage in C. S. Harris's latest novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Medicean Succession
/In 1537, teenager Cosimo dei Medici became the first citizen of Florence, and in the following decades, he set about fashioning a 'sacral' rulership for himself - a complicated process at the heart of this fascinating new study
Read MoreBook Review: The Queen's Dwarf
/A quick-witted and bilingual dwarf is planted in the household of England's foreign queen in order to spy on her - but he comes to esteem her, outcast to outcast
Read MoreBook Review: Girl on the Golden Coin
/An exceptional beauty entices King Charles II and ascends to the heights of the Merry Monarch's court
Read MoreBook Review: The Waking Engine
/In an amazing science fiction debut, a New Yorker awakens in a strange new world
Read MoreBook Review: The Counterfeit Agent
/CIA super-agent John Wells needs to get back in the field and feel the old adrenaline pumping again - but will his latest adventure (featuring a dastardly nuclear plot and a shadowy female operative with a Biblical code-name) be more than he bargained for?
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