Literary
City of Spades
City of Spades is one of the publisher’s reissues in their Classics of the 20th Century series and called by…
Fields of Glory
This deeply moving little book comes to the reader softly, like a rainstorm of the lower Loire. Words patter on…
Kind One
This spare novel begins with foreboding: “Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them.”…
News from Heaven
Bakerton, Pennsylvania is a mining town whose prosperity peaked in the mid-20th century, and the decline of both the town…
Music of a Life
In this densely written novella, Russian author Andrei Makine evokes the grim, gray, repressive atmosphere of Soviet Russia from the…
A Dual Inheritance
Ed Cantrowitz is hot for the girls and doesn’t quite know how to handle them beyond the chase and sex.…
River of Dust
In northwestern China in 1910, the Reverend and his wife, Grace, both missionaries, are en route to a new summer…
Kipling & Trix
Mary Hamer’s Kipling and Trix elegantly walks the borders between fact and fiction in her retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s story…
Tree of Pearls
This book is essentially two stories in one; both take place in the 13th-century Abbasid Empire. The first story takes…
Requiem for a Lost Empire
This novel spans three generations – from 1917, when the narrator’s grandfather fought for the Red Army, through World War…
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