Fiction, Nonfiction, and Other Book Reviews
Eddie Robson has written four science fiction novels: a comedy conspiracy thriller called Tomorrow Never Knows (2015), Hearts Of Oak (2020), a weird tale of architecture, alienation and talking cats, Drunk...
The River We Remember is a police procedural set in a fictional small town (Jewel) in a fictional county (Black Earth) in southern Minnesota. It is May 30, 1958—Memorial Day—and though...
In Light on Bone, Kathryn Lasky takes us to the New Mexico Ghost Ranch of 1934, gifting us with its beauty as seen through the eyes of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Although...
Lately, I’ve become very tired of reading about abuse whether it be abandonment or dismemberment or any trauma in between. Is there a well-written angst-free novel out there? Yes! I found...
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery of 2025, Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson is set on the fictional Ralston Island in the Thousand Islands archipelago...
To retrieve history we need rigour, integrity, unsparing devotion and an impulse to scepticism. To retrieve the past, we require all those virtues, and something more. If we want added value...
In his Library of Congress National Book Festival discussion of All the Sinners Bleed, S. A. Cosby mentions how impactful it was to him to have made President Obama’s summer reading...
What a great idea this was, exquisitely researched and executed perfectly! I read A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks in small bites and from the reviews I have read,...
Set on a fictional Welsh island in 1938, Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor introduces its reader to eighteen-year-old Manod Llan, a lifelong islander, who feels a deep attachment to her small...
At some point in recent history, the merits of reading literary fiction became inextricably entwined with the genre’s potential to instill empathy, particularly for characters whose lives are radically different from...
