At the beginning of each month, the National Post’s Paul Taunton previews the most talked about books coming out over the next few weeks. Here’s what readers can look forward to this March:Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History’s Greatest Buildings by James Crawford (Picador, 640 pp; $49) – March 7The subtitle says it all. Who better to give it the book-length treatment than Tim Cook, author of the Charles Taylor Prize-winning Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–18, among other books on Canada in wartime. Story collections are difficult to describe succinctly, which is why reviewers often focus on voice. This Newfoundland writer has a memorable one, and we should expect to get to know it well.

Source: National Post March 07, 2017 13:52 UTC