Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Our favorites are digging grim tunnels into territory old and new, from haunted houses to whimsical horror comedies.

1. When Elisabeth Tova Bailey falls sick with an illness that keeps her bedridden, she brings in a snail from her garden and decides to keep it in a terrarium on her nightstand, finding unexpected ...

Read and reread over the years and yet so new each time, James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical tale opens with an unforgettable ...

The chief animal protagonists in this story are two dogs and a polo pony. Their cognition can seem almost human at times. Was ...

Not everyone has the guts to take on a Stephen King or Shirley Jackson book. But if you do, here are 10 gory horror books to ...

This anecdote is typical of Bailey’s self-described “sort of memoir”, My Animals and Other Animals, a gently amusing and frequently informative rattle-bag of sketches about Bailey’s ...

If you’re looking for a big-ticket item, a bike is probably top of the list for a lot of seven-year-olds. This bike has been ...

October is always a blockbuster month in the publishing industry and this year is no exception, with new offerings from ...

According to the crime writer Ian Rankin, there is no need for crime novels to be longer than 300 pages – big books, he says, ...

Animal Life and The Birth of the Mind,” but expanded his view massively for his final installment in his trilogy, “Living on ...

Types of fiction include plays, stories and poems. There are many different types of non-fiction writing, such as newspapers, adverts, brochures, reference books ... a person or animal and write ...