Jen Webb receives funding from Australian Research Council. There is an overlap of place and profession, and some shared characters, between the novels. The Dictionary of Lost Words began in the late ...

World War I has inspired an extraordinary range of fiction and non-fiction, capturing the devastation, resilience, and shifting societal landscapes of the early 20th century. Ranked by the number of ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, ...

Books to steer people through doubt and trauma, a light look at theological battles over beards, and a historical novel of friendship tested by jealousy and the strains of World War I are among titles ...

Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst's "Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914" sets itself a deceptively narrow task: to tell the story of the First World War’s outbreak through ...

Less than a year after the Russian Empire entered World War I, a band of Georgian men came down from the Caucasus Mountains. Dressed in chain armor and wielding shields and broadswords, they rode to ...