Book Reviews Archive
Reviews of new fiction, author biographies, and other related books.
City of Thieves by David Benioff
In City of Thieves, screenwriter and author David Benioff spins a yarn set during the siege of Leningrad. It's an involving and well-told adventure, but it suffers from a distracting and unnecessarily gimmicky framing device. >>
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. >>
The present, tense: 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. >>
