Michael Talbot, Author Knopf Publishing Group $18.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-394-55296-5
This richly textured, absorbing sequel to To the Ends of the Earth continues the chronicle of Australia's settlement by an assortment of ``thieves, whores, cheats and murderers.'' When Commodore Arthur Phillip anchors his fleet in Botany Bay and...
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Michael Talbot, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (519p) ISBN 978-0-394-53376-6
Historical novels of such fiery vigor and flesh-and-blood authenticity as this first volume, in what is promised as a huge Australian saga, are a rarity. The year is 1785. A group of condemned criminals, lying in chains in London's Newgate jail, are
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Michael Talbot, Author William Morrow & Company $0 (310p) ISBN 978-0-688-05952-1
American archeologist David Macauley is thrilled when a 2000-year-old body is found, perfectly preserved by peaty water, in an English West Country bog; when another body turns up, David moves his family there. The villagers of Fenchurch St. Jude...
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Michael Talbot, Author William Morrow & Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07163-9
Talbot's latest novel (after The Bog) is a bit of an oddity. Although ostensibly a horror story, stylistically it's remire Hale breeds and trains racing quarterhorses and Diana gardens assiduously. Dynamic and well-organized as the Caldwells appear...
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Michael Talbot, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $18.22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-02-616210-4
A respected physicist speculates that the subatomic world only makes sense if we assume the existence of dimensions as yet undiscovered. A Cambridge biologist proposes that a ghostly energy field, able to communicate across time and space,...
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