The Revelations Alex Preston
A group of young people are searching for meaning in a directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seems to offer everything the friends have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart ... More
Fiction Highlights: The Street Sweeper
Epic in ambition, Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper spans fifty years and encompasses the horrors of racism and genocide, ranging from New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw and Auschwitz, as two very different paths - Adam's and Lamont's - lead to one greater story. Also this month: Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis and Alex Preston's The Revelations. More
Crime & Thrillers: Perps On the Run
We've a handful of new crime and thrillers to kick off the year with. Peter Leonard's Voices of the Dead; Thomas Enger's Burned; Sara Gran's City of the Dead; and Sam Eastland's Siberian Red. Nordic noir, American hard-boiled. The common theme? They'll keep you guessing. More
Non-Fiction Highlights: The Year of the Dragon
China is the new superpower, but not so long ago was a terrified nation in disarray. Everything changed with The Death of Mao, the subject of James Palmer's new book. For more on a nation just celebrating New Year: Jonathan Watts' When a Billion Chinese Jump, and Mary Laven's Mission to China are both in paperback. More
Fiction Debuts with: an International Flavour
Four impressive, international debuts: Jeet Thayil's hallucinatory Narcopolis captures Bombay as it transforms from 1970s squalor to modern Mumbai; and we get outsiders' perspectives in Teju Cole's Open City (New York), Keija Parssinen's The Ruins of Us (Saudi Arabia), and Krys Lee's Drifting House (Korea). More
Costa Biography Winner: Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis
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Winner of the 2011 Costa Biography Award is Matthew Hollis's biography of Edward Thomas, now considered one of the finest of War Poets. A friend of Robert Frost, he was part of an astonishingly vibrant period in English literature. More
The Waste Land for iPad: Available in the App Store
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Featuring a performance from Fiona Shaw, synchronized audio, video perspectives, commentary notes and original manuscript material, The Waste Land for iPad, the must-have app, is available to download from the App Store now. More