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Keith Dixon is the current featured contibutor at Writers Read . Ghostfires , his first novel, was named one of the five best first novels ...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Simon Wood's Accidents Waiting to Happen . About the book , from the author's website: Josh...

Poet/playwright/novelist Adam Thorpe selected a top ten list of satires for the Guardian . He introduced his selections thus: "I live i...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Stephanie Elizondo Griest's Around the Bloc . About the book , from the author's website: ...

The Rap Sheet is running yet another entertaining and enlightening feature about crime fiction. Editor J. Kingston Pierce "invited sco...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Tom Gabbay's The Lisbon Crossing . About the book , from the publisher: Teeming with Nazis, sp...

Alexander McCall Smith told Newsweek about his five most important books. And two books that are not so important to him: A classic ...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read is David Edgerton , author of The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 19...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Thomas K. McCraw's Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction . About th...

The new feature at the Page 99 Test: Lydia Millet's My Happy Life . About the novel , from the publisher: At the opening of My Happy Li...

At My Book, The Movie, Bella DePaulo shares some ideas about the casting for a film adaptation of her nonfiction book, Singled Out: How Sin...

Ann Rule, best-selling author of two dozen true-crime books, named a "five best" list of true-crime books for Opinion Journal . Th...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: George Kateb's Patriotism and Other Mistakes . About the book , from the publisher: George Kate...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read is David Fulmer , author of the Shamus Award-winning Chasing the Devil's Tail , The Dy...

This week at The Week magazine, Lee Child named The List. The only title in translation on it: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan ...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Cordelia Frances Biddle's The Conjurer . About the book , from The Conjurer website: In...

Wilbur Smith , author of The Quest and thirty other African adventure novels, talked to the Christian Science Monitor about what he was wa...

The new feature at the Page 99 Test: Paul Schneider's Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America . About the...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook . A...

At My Book, The Movie, Albyn Leah Hall shares some ideas about the casting for a film adaptation of her latest novel, The Rhythm of the Ro...