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What's on the horizon for fall and beyond? Just-announced memoirs, a series surprise, a revisited classic, and more!--Annie Bostrom City of Night Birds. By Juhea Kim. Ecco, $30 (9780063394759). Nov. [...]

1 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. [HC] Zoe Schlanger. Harper. 2024. ISBN 9780063073852. $29.99. 2 Why We [...]

* Disability Pride Month commemorates the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law on July 26, 1990. In recognition of S this month-long observance, the [...]

REFERENCE American presidents: v.1 The American presidency, George Washington-Woodrow Wilson, v.2 The American presidency, Warren G. Harding-Joseph Biden, ed. by Michael J. O'Neal. 5th ed. Salem Press, 2022. 2v bibl [...]

Myth, folklore and historical retellings abound in this month's fiction offering, with Jenn Northington and S. Zainab Williams's anthology of Greek myth retellings Fit forthe Gods (PRH USA), Shelley Parker-Chan's [...]

We continue to see the theme of reflection throughout the publishing in these categories. Where craft titles pre-pandemic may have focused heavily on 'active' crafts such as how to make [...]

The article focuses on Cleaver Magazine's commitment to showcasing work by emerging writers and artists, defining "emerging" as young artists under 30 or those in the early stages of their careers. Topics include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces published in various issues, highlighting the diverse voices and talents of emerging artists featured in Cleaver Magazine.

Trespasses, by Louise Kennedy. (Riverhead, 304 pp., $18.) In 1975 Northern Ireland, Cushla Lavery -- 24 years old, a teacher and a Catholic -- is doing her best to protect [...]

THE GREATEST CAPITALIST WHO EVER LIVED: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age, by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman. (PublicAffairs, $32.50.) In [...]

IN 'THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY', a comic sci-fi novel, Douglas Adams, the author, mused about the nature of travel. Road bypasses, he wrote, 'are devices that allow some [...]

Our idea of what contributes to our wellbeing, our being well, has been undergoing a quiet revolution in the 21st century. Many ideas and practices that a generation ago were [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt (*) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

Babel by R.F. Kuang Set in an alternate Victorian Britain, R.F. Kuang's standalone historical fantasy is an unforgiving examination of the cost of power. Everywhere With You by Carlie Sorosiak, [...]

Celebrating creativity, reclaiming hidden history, recognizing camouflaged connections, sharing intimate truths, stating facts, expressing feelings, and telling powerful and imaginative stories in fiction that illuminates the specific and the universal, [...]

MYSTERY Armstrong, Kelley. The Poisoner's Ring: A Rip Through Time Novel. Minotaur: St. Martin's. (Rip Through Time, Bk. 2). May 2023.368p. ISBN 9781250820037. $28. Downloadable, MYSTERY/POLICE PROCEDURAL In A Rip [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

This time last year I was writing about the impact of Covid, the continuing climate emergency and the fracturing of previously held ideas about how the world works, particularly in [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 90 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of 2022. Ali Smith The handsome Picador reissue of her novel Annie John this year alongside so much of her backlist [...]

A preview of new titles publishing between November 2022 and October 2023 If you're a fan of authentically voiced non-fiction, you won't be disappointed in the coming year. There is [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

MEMOIR EDITOR'S PICK The Queen of Gay Street Esther Mollica | Idee Fixe Books 200p, e-book, $3.99, ISBN 979-8-986-95810-1 Mollica's (iFeel Love: Notes on Queer Joy) memoir is a raunchy, [...]

Philip Hensher There were some very good novels this year, but they came from surprising directions. It is astonishing that one as original as Kate Barker-Mawjee's The Coldest Place on [...]

The latest titles in the geography series center on wonderful landscapes and vibrant cultures around the globe. Readers will be introduced to continents, customs, and cuisines to gain a better [...]

Aren't lists Comforting? To-do lists put everything in their place instead of swimming around in one's head. They are a personal reference of work to do, books to read, or [...]

FINE ARTS Bonsu, Osei. African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century. Chronicle. Oct. 2022.240p. ISBN 9781797217208. $55. FINE ARTS Bonsu, a British Ghanaian curator of [...]

COOKING Blumenthal, Heston. Is This a Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen. Bloomsbury. Nov. 2022. 368p. ISBN 9781526621504. $35. COOKING Prolific cookbook author and British celebrity chef Blumenthal (Heston Blumenthal at [...]

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Bolstad, Erika. Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her. Sourcebooks. Jan. 2023.336p. ISBN 9781728246932. $26.99. MEMOIR What is more appealing [...]

MYSTERY Allen, Samantha Jayne. Hard Rain. Minotaur: St. Martin's. (Annie Mclntyre, Bk. 2). Apr. 2023. 352p. ISBN 9781250863812. $27.99. MYSTERY/PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR In Allen's LJ-starred, Tony Hillerman Prize-winning Pay Dirt Road, [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

The south-west is as culturally stunning and diverse as its landscape-and nowhere is this more apparent than in the books from publishers and writers working in the region With its [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 45 self- * published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and [...]

Literary Fiction The Candy House Jennifer Egan (Scribner) Once again, as in A Visit from the Goon Squad, Egan stretches the bounds of the novel. The speculative story is about [...]

Dr Caspar Addyman, Ania Simeone (illus) Babies Laugh at Everything Campbell Books, 8th June, 12.99 [pounds sterling], board book, 9781035003969, A preview of new titles published between November 2022-October 2023 This year has been even harder than the last few for disabled and chronically ill writers, as incredible as that [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

American Sirens Kevin Hazzard (Hachette) $30 * A journalist and former paramedic paints a riveting portrait of Freedom House EMS, a pioneering group of Black paramedics in 1970s Pittsburgh, contextualizing [...]

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Chaudry, Rabia. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family Algonquin. Nov. 2022. 352p. ISBN 9781643750385. $29. MEMOIR Chaudry (Adrian's Story), a podcaster, executive [...]

FINE ARTS Boynton, Graham. Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover. St. Martin's. Oct. 2022.352p. ISBN 9781250274991. $35. FINE ARTS Journalist Boynton (The Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland) [...]

Anderson, Bernadette. Fulfilled: 52 Prescriptions for Healing, Health, and Happiness. Woodhall. Oct. 2022.200p. ISBN 9781954907232. pap. $19.95. SELF-HELP Anderson, or Dr. B as her followers know her, is a health [...]

Dellatore, Carl. More Is More Is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors. Rizzoli. Sept. 2022. 240p. ISBN 9780847872374. $55. INTERIOR DESIGN Maximalism is having a moment. Whether a backlash against the recent [...]

Bagger, Laerke. Close Knit: 15 Patterns and 45 Techniques from Beginner to Advanced from Europe's Coolest Knitter. Prestel. Oct. 2022. 272p. ISBN 9783791388861. $35. FIBER CRAFTS Bagger, known for her [...]