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The creator of two mystery series has the latitude — and the attitude — to address matters other writers wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.

“You’ve got to know when you’re onto a good thing,” says the prolific historian, British TV personality and author of “Wolves of Winter,” the second novel in his Hundred Years’ War trilogy.

Practitioners of the solitary and highly secretive profession got together to compare notes and celebrate their work.

The setting of “The Fury,” the new novel by Alex Michaelides, is stunning. Its plot? Not so much.

One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians.

One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians.

Shubnum Khan’s “The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years” braids a rich historical love story with a contemporary coming-of-age tale in South Africa.

“Last Acts,” by Alexander Sammartino, is a satire of contemporary America set at a firearms shop in Phoenix.

Andrew X. Pham’s first novel, “Twilight Territory,” imagines an unlikely romance during a nation’s fight for independence.

“Lovers in Auschwitz” and “Cold Crematorium,” two works by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust.