Reviews of new fiction, author biographies, and other related books.
The Creator’s Map by Emilio Calderón
In The Creator's Map, Spanish author Emilio Calderon combines a wartime thriller with guidebook pedantry. ...
The Widow’s Secret by Brian Thompson
The Widow's Secret by Brian Thompson, introduces readers to new sleuth Bella Wallis, a writer of Victorian sensation novels who skewers her quarries with damning prose. ...
A Year in the Province by Christopher Marsh
A Year in the Province, by Christopher Marsh, spoofs the expatriate memoir genre by taking a narrator from rural Spain and sending him to spend a year in Belfast. ...
Brief Lives from Hesperus Press
The Brief Lives series from Hesperus press features biographies of Oscar Wilde, Chekhov and Charles Dickens. ...
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan
Blackmoor, the debut novel from British author Edward Hogan, uses a combination of past and present tense to tell the story of a family tragedy set during the final years of a mining town. ...
