The Butcher’s Daughter follows a Tudor English girl, Agnes Peppin, from the cocoon of her youth in her small market town, to consignment to a nunnery after an out-of-wedlock... Read More

After Joe Minihane quit his journalism job to go freelance, he soon found himself having to write dull technology stories, all along wishing he could be a travel writer instead.... Read More

The images evoked in this reframing of vampire legends are both familiar and strange. Lee Markham’s cross-genre "The Truants" pulls no punches in its paradigm-shifting... Read More

Shtum is a Yiddish word meaning noncommunicative or silent, and that’s where Ben Jewell finds himself in British author Jem Lester’s novel of the same name. Ben’s world is... Read More

"Scandinavians" engages with the explorer’s spirit that still sheaths the north lands in romance. Robert Ferguson’s "Scandinavians" is a work that is certain to delight... Read More

"Watching Porn" is seductive work that approaches its subject respectfully and from every conceivable angle, working toward wholly satisfying conclusions. In her enticing memoir... Read More

Satanic rituals, vestments dripping with blood, and a battlefield of corpses. It’s World War I, and the Inquisition is still hard at work protecting the Vatican from the... Read More

Morbidly engrossing, the novel probes the lengths women go to in order to be seen as beautiful. Kate Howard’s "The Ornatrix" is a dazzling exploration of the meaning and... Read More

These retellings of Greek myths add valuable touches and character development to familiar tales. Ancient Greek myths endure largely because they’re good stories. In Arcadian... Read More

A strange, violent land at the far edge of the Roman empire sets the stage for this essentially human war tale. In "War at the Edge of the World", the first book of a planned... Read More

The book is appropriately unsettling, while remaining a reasoned overview of a hard-to-contain problem. Where once the threat of nuclear war came primarily from nations, experts... Read More

Depth of detail and superb understanding of historical figures prove Benjamin’s research and admiration of the New York landscape. It’s difficult to imagine a more thorough... Read More