'Mugglemarch' a sour tale of small--town life

JK Rowling's first novel for adults The Casual Vacancy features grimy casual sex, self-harm, rape and heroin addiction and vicious parish politics.

Historical pastiche cheapens horror of anti-Semitism

Eco's new book tells the story of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.