Those of us who read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins' President Snow-centric prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy, are in for a treat. Even more people are going to learn the story ...

Well into The Snakes, Costa winner Sadie Jones’s first novel in a contemporary setting, one of the protagonists observes celebrations for a dead family member: “It was a rich crowd; not the clothes or ...