Literary
A Winding Road
The circumstances surrounding a masterpiece’s creation – witness Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – is fertile ground for fiction…
True Confections
In 1975, Alice Tatnall, a convicted felon and local pariah at age eighteen thanks to her having accidentally burned down…
The Show That Smells
Jimmie Rodgers, Carrie Rodgers, Elsa Schiaparelli, Lon Chaney, Coco Chanel, the Carter Family, and the reader in a mirror maze.…
The Good Doctor Guillotin
The lives of five men converge in on one epochal event – the first use of the guillotine as a…
Tomato Rhapsody
Set in 16th-century Italy, this first novel by Adam Schell is advertised as “a fable of love, lust and forbidden…
Girl Mary
Romanian-born bestseller Petru Popescu imagines the girlhood of Jesus’s mother in this European-flavored literary work. We first see the tall…
Sand Daughter
This is the first U.S. release of Sand Daughter, originally published in 2007 in the U.K. It is a sweeping…
Flint
Editors' choice
Young Will and his brother Ned are called away from their home in East Anglia to King Edward’s Welsh wars…
Lark and Termite
Set in 1950s Virginia, Lark and Termite is a suspenseful novel focusing on a cast of characters affected by love,…
Little Gods
This is a story revolving around four people, Jean, Gloria, Jack and Denny. It begins in England just before WWII.…
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