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Zoë Meager of Aotearoa New Zealand has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize. Meager’s evocative story Things with bodies was selected from 1,800 entries by this year’s ...
8. The A.B.C. Murders For fans of: Classic detective fiction Here’s another of Christie’s top-rated books, this one published in 1936.
This is the first hard-cover anthology offered by The New York Review of Books since the first issue was published in 1963. For thirty years, The New York Review has been publishing essays by some of ...
Most lengthy fantasy book series are a significant commitment if one plans to read it all the way through, but many are ...
non-fiction, memoir, poetry, history, politics, folklore, and more. In reviews, we read an anthology of P. Lankesh’s best ...
This week’s reviews include historical fiction about Florence Nightingale ... Despite outrage from some quarters, Oprah refused to pull the book from her book club. It became a bestseller. The fallout ...
Macmillan Publishers No list of historical fiction is complete without the inclusion of Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping epic set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The book is not what one ...
An excerpt from ‘The Merchant of Sagar Island’ by Abdul Jabbar in ‘Stayed Back, Stayed On: Short Stories by Bengali Muslim ...
The launch of the new anthology by Bray writer’s group, Sea Scribes, took place on Saturday, July 5, in a packed Town Hall as ...
Ernest Hemingway was an iconic American writer of the 20th century. He was a Nobel Prize laureate. Discover more about his early life, iconic books like The Old Man and the Sea, the Nobel Prize, and ...
For readers of historical fiction, there’s no need to settle on just one place or period when journeying into the past. At ...
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, a film that has firmly established its place among the best sci ...