20th Century
Home Run: Escape From Nazi Europe
Throughout World War II a total of a quarter of a million Allied soldiers and airmen found themselves cut off,…
The Last Nightingale
Think film noir with a twist of Stephen King and you have Anthony Flacco’s tale of a twelve-year-old boy’s hellish…
Zugzwang
Zugzwang: a position in chess in which a player is obliged to move, though every move makes his position worse,…
The 47th Samurai
Two characters with the quintessentially American names of Earl and Bob Lee Swagger occupy center stage in this latest view…
Capote In Kansas: A Ghost Story
Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, two illustrious Southern authors: one flamboyant, brazen and pretentious, the other seemingly sensible and…
The Kingdom Of Ashes
Set in the fictional town of Rehstadt, near Hanover in the British Zone of Occupation in 1946, this is a…
The Air We Breathe
The First World War looms in the background of this intimate novel, which borrows slightly in themes and setting from…
The Last Goodbye
This novel is the sequel to A Time to Remember. It is a love story set during the Second World…
Dead Man In Paradise
This book is the winner of the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize, Canada’s award for the best literary non-fiction. It’s a…
The Theory Of Clouds
Editors' choice
“All children become sad in the late afternoon, for they begin to comprehend the passage of time. The light starts…
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