7 Thrilling Short Stories from the 1950s & 1960s! GREMMIE'S REEF: Classic Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1950s and 1960s ... Read More A Murder On Campus – Solving North Carolina’s Most Notorious Cold Case The fascinating story of how two brothers-one an English professor, the other...
Since the early stories of the 18th and 19th centuries, crime fiction has been an incredibly popular and enduring genre, the investigation of murder somehow capturing the imagination of millions of readers around the globe. Here, Sophie Roell, editor of Five Books, uses strict but simple criteria...
Ilana is very honest about her struggles which I appreciated because it’s not easy but she also offers guidance and advice based on what she has learnt though the last few years. My disability is something that happened to me as an adult but I can’t imagine what it’s like to have ...
Everything We Know So Far:Deadlinereports that this five-part limited series, which is based on public records as well as the Krough’ book, will look at Howard Dean (Domhnall Gleeson), E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) and the men behind the Watergate...
For this list, we specifically chose works covering events or time periods over 30 years before they were written. We included books based on true stories, as well as ones where the author takes more liberties with the facts. Best Historical Fiction Books ...
The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in the 19th century. A Cockney butcher arrives in London from Australia claiming to be Sir Roger Tichborne, the heir to a baronetcy and previously thought to have been lost at sea. His sensational fraud trial in...
I get the impression he was American but spent a lot of time in Europe, based on his language and subject selection. But I'm guessing. In this book, he offers us essays on a bevy of deadly beauties, some obscure and therefore doubly interesting to me. Included are the stories of ...
I’m Still Hereis theincredibly moving, true story of a Brazilian family,based on the bestselling memoirs of their son, Marcello.While it covers the secret arrest of Rubens Paiva by the military dictatorship it’s also about the repercussions it had on the lives of Eunice, their entire fami...
"All the best stories are true" runs the tagline of theBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the UK's pre-eminent nonfiction book award. This year, to celebrate the prize's 25th birthday, a panel of judges picked out books for a winner of winners award, making for an excellent collecti...
Over the years, many of my favorite novels have been based on letters: Alice Walker’s modern classic,The Color Purple, tells Celie’s story through her letters to God. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society(by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, aunt and niece) is a series of le...