1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (18+ words) The Hounds Gate Haunting review - a ghostly critic lurks in the stalls in this suspensefu­l spooker PressReader...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (868+ words) The difficulty is that Bulgakov's book begins by making promises its subsequent performance only intermittently keeps. One expects a blade. Too often one gets fireworks. The fool behaves foolishly. The fool is punished. It is difficult to admire the moral…...

12+ hour, 3+ min ago   (442+ words) Political scheming. Sex. Betrayal. Warfare. Propaganda. Two of the most powerful people in the world conducting a love affair while an empire begins to collapse around them. Suares isn’t interested in giving us another portrait of history’s great seductress. She…...

13+ hour, 39+ min ago   (442+ words) Now Fantagraphics has collected the entire saga in a deluxe new edition, Bitchy: The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken (2026). For the first time, Gregory has arranged the stories in chronological order of Midge’s life, starting from her childhood and adolescence…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago   (691+ words) An extract from Shirley with Orgies by Lucy Landica and Anne Brontë It was early to go home, but yet it was late in the day. The last ray of the sun had already …...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (191+ words) Edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin The 14th-century writer Geoffrey Chaucer included many episodes of “violence, victimhood, and overwhelming grief or loss” in his works. The nine papers in this collection explore how he presents these traumatic experiences and…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (334+ words) In William Shakespeare’s historical drama “Julius Caesar,” Cassius tells Brutus “The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” The stars and the Bard align anew in the just-published book “Shakespeare’s World” by Dennis Krausnick, Josh Lubarr and Rebecca…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1164+ words) “Excuse me, my Lady? The King requests your presence at once.” I looked up from my book startled. What did His Grace want with me? The servant man smiled politely as he helped me up from my seat. “If you’d…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (365+ words) Cabinet Secretary for Education, Culture and Gaelic, Màiri McAllan, officially opened the 2026 Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday evening at the Opening Gala exploring the festival theme, Changing Your Mind, saying this is a “truly essential” theme for our times....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (183+ words) Review: Charming trip to France + drama = ‘The Gulf of Lions’ TheDailyNewsOnline.com “The Gulf of Lions” by Caitlin Shetterly. “You’re a mess,” a girl named Sophie tells her mom in “The Gulf of Lions.â…...