That one Saturday in March 1942 remains in my mind to this day.  It was in the afternoon. The siren had sounded so often that day that there was no point in going up and down at the end of...

Steve Hely's plan is vague: travel south and make lots of stops along the way until he reaches the end of the world. And so begins "The Wonder Trail," Hely's account of everything from the history of...

Lisa Unger returns to the small town of The Hollows with "Ink and Bone," another gut-wrenching tale of horror and mystery. Finley Montgomery has been visited by ghostly figures and experienced...

In 1993, Peter D. Kramer wrote "Listening to Prozac," a book that explored the ethics of prescribing what was then a relatively new class of antidepressants that, quite separate from treating...

Brad Meltzer, one of the best historical thriller writers in the business, teams up with acclaimed author Tod Goldberg for "The House of Secrets," and the result is somewhat mixed. Jack Nash is...

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's latest Gideon Crew thriller is a sequel to "The Ice Limit." At the end of that novel's ambiguous ending, a ship was torn apart, a meteorite was submerged in the...

The author is a member of the Missionary Society of St Paul, which was established by Mgr Joseph de Piro in 1910. But this book is not a hagiography of Mgr de Piro or a biography - books...

 "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world," the English novelist Agatha Christie once said. But what of a child's love for the mother? And what happens when the love...

Vincent Vella Shadows in Penumbra is Lillian Sciberras' latest publication. Better known for her poetry (Kessidra: Versi taż-Żmien Maħrub) and short stories (Happenstance: Tales of...

Philip Farrugia Randon   I have known Alex Mizzi and his father Lawrence for many years but I never knew Alex was also interested in writing like his well-known father. So I was...