An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.

Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment

How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe presented their production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation. In an unusual.......

 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

The story is told in a series of letter and telegrams, which is always magical to me. I find it amazing that an author (or authors in this case..) can create a story that way. I love stories told in this matter. It feels as if you have come across a chest full of old letters in your granny's attic. Almost as if you are spying on someone else's life.

Wizard's First Rule (

Wizard's First Rule, written by Terry Goodkind, is the bestselling first book in the epic fantasy series "The Sword of Truth". The series consist of 11 books that have been translated in more than 20 languages and sold 25 million copies worldwide.

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Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel by Marie Phillips

Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ.