book review

A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood Press 978-1958880319, trade paperback, 256pp, $18.99) August 2025. Although Fran Wilde’s…

Published on: Sept 01, 2025 03:12 pm IST Author Allison King’s debut novel, The Phoenix Pencil Company is…

(Aug. 31, 2025) — Before I begin to sing the praises of Chris Pavone’s latest literary thriller, “The…

Hanning’s book is fascinating and is full of larger-than-life characters such as Marianne Faithfull, Dudley Moore, Seamus Heaney,…

What do you want readers to take away from the book? Emotions. It’s not just one of them…

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By Richard Shearc.2025, Rockport/Quarto Publishing$24.99, 160 pages Your morning started out all wrong. You couldn’t find your favorite…

All that is in short supply. This is Alum Rock in Birmingham, early 2000s, a grim name (referring…

Benjamin Merkle’s “The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great” (Thomas Nelson, 2009, 272 pages) tells…

Arborescence: quick links Get ready for a fascinating experience when you open this book. In the world Rhett…

What if our history books only told half the story? For Sam Dalrymple, that question became the spark…

The English word “yield,” derived from old English, is a relic of a time when a ruling class…

Review by Paul Di Filippo – Locus Online