Review: James Wade’s ‘Narrow the Road’ follows a 15-year-old boy’s journey through Depression-era Texas
“NARROW THE ROAD” By James Wade (Blackstone Publishing, 292 pages, $28.99) “Narrow the Road,” the fourth novel from…
Learning Is More Than Just Collecting Facts
Earlier this week, I read Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto for the first time. Published in 1764,…
New in paper – Winnipeg Free Press
Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality: Stories By Lindsay Wong (Penguin Canada, $23) The Winnipeg-based author’s collection brings…
Sheila Carr raises money for Age UK Wyvern with her book
Sheila Carr, from Leominster, has pledged all profits from her book, April and her Adventures, to Age UK…
WOLF: Any folks out there still reading a large number of books?
Are you a voracious reader? How many books would you say you read during an average year? I’ve…
My Favorite Book of the Past 5 Years Is Becoming a Movie
When I recently wrote about picking a favorite book out of the nearly 200 I’ve read in the…
Korea’s lonely older adults find warmth in talking robots
“When my husband suddenly had to go to a nursing hospital, I was left alone and fell into…
‘We don’t celebrate Black creativity enough’: why the Black British book festival is bigger than ever | Books
On Sunday morning, the Barbican’s vast concrete foyer will swap its usual quiet for a buzz of conversation…
The Betsy-Tacy Crowd still have something to tell us
Nothing explosive ever happens in the novels. The characters don’t solve mysteries or time travel or save lives.…
Biblioracle on “The Ten Year Affair” by Erin Somers
Writing recently in the New York Review of Books, novelist and critic Adelle Waldman wonders about what happened…
You could win a copy of Raymond Briggs’ book, The Strange House
Be in with a chance to win a charming Raymond Briggs story just in time to gift for…
Carissa Broadbent ‘The Lion & the Deathless Dark’ cover (exclusive)
Did you love “The Serpent & the Wings of Night” by Carissa Broadbent? You’re in luck – the…