Items tagged with 'Bookshots'

A review of Nick Cutter's brutal horror novel, 'The Troop'.

Too much landscape porn, not enough gunslinging.

J.W. Ironmonger's ambitious and contemplative novel prompts readers to reconsider the small coincidences in their lives.

A story of hope, survival and Princess Diana dolls in the mountains of Mexico.

What were you doing when you were five? Were you surviving bear attacks? I bet you weren't surviving bear attacks.

In the late sixties/early seventies, a wave of media rebels challenged the censors with realistic scenes of sex. This is their story.

Hassan Blasim's collection of stories presents a surreal interior view of both the Iraq War and a multitude of horrors that followed in its wake.

'Dust' tells a story of blood, poetry, and political upheaval in the Kenyan drylands.

The latest novel from E.L. Doctorow is a departure from the author's usual historical fiction, but longtime fans should not — and will not — be disappointed with this clever, thinking man's yarn.

In early 19th Century London, a magic tree leaf plagues sailors just back from a trip to Tahiti, and a determined constable and his team are determined to find out why.

As Culture Editor of the New York Times Magazine, Adam Sternbergh has the connections to land a publishing deal for his debut novel. But can the boy write? Yes he can.

Shteyngart offers up all the embarrassments of his childhood as fodder, resulting in a very personal portrait of a flawed but loving family.