In the book’s defence, Nesbo makes excellent use of all the atmosphere of his genre, and the stakes at play are every bit as convincing as those in the original. Overall though, it disappoints.

Everyone knows what has long been the story of Macbeth as presented to us in Shakespeare’s play. Now, in this latest volume in Polygon’s Darkland Tales series, Val McDermid tells it differently.

The New Yorker, October 2, 1937 P. 16. The writer meet an American lady while he is staying at a hotel in the English lake country. She tells him she purchased a Penguin book called "The Tragedy ...

Lady Macbeth is said to be cunning by other characters throughout the book, but she never displays these clever ways. On the contrary, all that she seems to do is watch over her son and pace back ...

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma in a previous production of “Macbeth,” which is playing in D.C. until May. (Marc Brenner) Review by Rhoda Feng In a deracinated, begrimed landscape, a cluster of ...

Lady Macbeth won’t hit shelves until August 6, 2024, but you can pre-order it right now. Lacy Baugher Milas is the Books Editor at Paste Magazine, but loves nerding out about all sorts of pop ...

Between a new stage play and book — Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An Undoing) and Val McDermid’s Queen Macbeth — Lady M has finally gotten out of that damned spot. Skip to main content.

Kelly excels early in the play — when Lady Macbeth is a figure of icy malevolence, demanding that her husband murder Duncan (Joe Penczak), the king of Scotland, and seize the throne for himself ...

Revise and learn about the themes of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth with BBC Bitesize GCSE English Literature ... led by King James I himself who published a book on the subject called Demonology.

In Queen Macbeth, the author attempts to unravel the violence done to this real historical figure by history and, of course, by Shakespeare’s play. In this telling, Lady Macbeth is re ...

Val McDermid, whose latest book, Queen Macbeth, is the latest in the Darkland Tales series. ... I’d just be really annoying to everybody else, you know. Play with me! ...