The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is called "one elegant doozy of a true-crime thriller" by Entertainment Weekly; and Time Magazine raves "it is not just a dark, vicious true-crime story, it is the story of the birth of forensic science." See why critics are so excited about Kate Summerscale's new book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
(click here). And click here to activate the book's intriguing, interactive web site. To read Time Magazine review click here.

Watch Kate talk about her new book on a Book Zone video!
“A terrific book ... opens up a dark door in the Victorian credenza--dense with detail, and yet with a nimbleness to the writing that’s unusual even for a very good detective story.”—Nicholson Baker

Maureen Corrigan recently gave a stellar recommendation for The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher on Fresh Air/NPR. You can listen here.

The Last Days of Old Beijing-A Trip Inside A Hutong

Michael Meyer, author of
The Last Days of Old Beijing Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed welcomes British television and youtube to his hutong in Beijing.

Authors OpEds

TIME.com ran this op-ed by Eric Roston in conjunction with their major Global Warming issue on April 17, 2008, Eric Roston is author of the upcoming
The Carbon Age How Life's Core Element has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat. Go.


In the World But Not of It author Brett Grainger's brilliant OpEd for the Christian Science Monitor Will Huckabee's campaign encourage evangelicals to vote for a Democrat?

Fall 2008 Catalog
Download Walker & Company's Fall 2008 catalog.

If you'd like to review all of BloomsburyUSA and Bloomsbury Press new Fall 08 titles, Download here.


The Boston Globe Appreciates Salt River

Salt River
"'Salt River' is an elegantly crafted murder mystery that mixes rural melancholia with minimalist lyricism..."Salt River" is a highly unusual, atmospherically unique mystery novel, and fans of noir fiction will find much here to keep them turning its pages.—Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe

BUZZ is Big on Political Blogs for AMPC

Larry Sabato and Brian Lehrer of WNYC had a great interview recently. If you missed it, listen here.
A More Perfect Constitution is creating a buzz on internet blogs such as The Daily Kos. Check it out all the buzz

New York Times Bestselling Author

"It is hard to imagine a more inviting account of the artistic civil war that raged around the Paris Salons of the 1860's and 70's, or of the outsize personalities who transformed the way the world looked at painting."—William Grimes, The New York Times

Judgment of Paris by Ross King Jump for reviews.




A Dot-Com Classic

The Victorian Internet is featured in the Wall Street Journal Weekend as one of the best books to consult when asking what the internet means for business. “This dot-com cult classic...” tops their FIVE BEST column.

Sable Island's Author Wins Award

The 28th Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Prize, the longest running writing award in Atlantic Canada, was presented to Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle for Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic. Read release. Go!