Rumaan Alam transforms a whimsical beach read into compelling literary prose in his debut novel, "Rich and Pretty." Alam allows his two main characters, Sarah and Lauren, to maneuver through decades...

  Last fall Hogarth Press published the first in a series of novels by contemporary writers reimagining Shakespeare's plays on the 400th anniversary of his death. So far we've had Jeanette...

Michael Schulman shares delightfully entertaining stories surrounding Meryl Streep's early rise to stardom in "Her Again." The book describes Streep's reign as homecoming queen in her suburban...

Readers who missed Brady Hartsfield in the second book in Stephen King's trilogy about a psychotic killer will be delighted to know he's alive - but definitely not well - in "End of Watch." Don't...

If there is a Rock and Roll Hell, an inner circle is devoted for old fans who insist on telling you how the music was so much better back in the day. You know the argument: musicians were more...

Dawn in Seville by Marie Anne Zammit is a historical novel set in the time when Spain was torn by civil war. The year 1936 brought about the revolution, led by General Francisco Franco against the...

Horizons Publications has just published Il-Kmandament Numru Ħdax   - ħobb lill-ħolqien (Commandment Number Eleven - love mother nature) by Paul P. Borg. The book is...

In the first few pages of Paul Doiron's "Widowmaker," game warden Mike Bowditch seizes an illegal animal (10 percent dog and 90 percent wolf) from a violent, drug addled couple; is stabbed in the back...

Tess comes to New York in the summer of 2006, 22 and aching for adventure. Things seem to fall into place when she aces an interview at a famous restaurant in Union Square - unnamed, but bearing quite...

After failing to have children on their own, Priya and Madhu, a successful Silicon Valley couple, have ventured into the surrogate world. Across the globe, in a small hut in South India, Asha...