LADY MACBETHAD, by Isabelle Schuler (Raven Books, $36.99)
his first novel by the Swiss-Hawaiian-American actress, writer and former Waterstones bookseller Isabelle Schuler emerged from her draft screenplay for a TV series. Her book ends before Shakespeare’s begins, with Gruoch’s marriage to the man she has long desired: MacBethad. That’s his correct historical name, by the way, which has been