Literary
The Quickening Maze
England, around 1840, and John Clare, the middle-aged poet of rural England, is incarcerated with his delusions and alter egos…
Man on the Move
This slim novella translated from the Dutch is the author’s second book. It begins with the protagonist Rob being waved…
Girl in a Blue Dress
All of Victorian London is mourning the death of famous author Alfred Gibson, but one woman has not been invited…
Voices of the Desert
A retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, Nélida Piñon’s Voices of the Desert is concerned not with the tales…
The Free Negress Elisabeth
This semi-biographical novel is set in Dutch Surinam during the early 17th century, a land as exotic, brutal and utterly…
Kill-Grief
‘Kill-grief’ is 18th-century cant for gin, and this novel certainly is awash with the stuff. Mary arrives in Chester in…
The Day the Falls Stood Still
Editors' choice
Bess Heath is in her next to last year at the Loretto Academy in Niagara Falls in 1915 when her…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
This is the fourth in Melvyn Bragg’s autobiographical quartet of novels about Joe Richardson, the working-class boy we first meet…
The Brothers Boswell
In 1763 John Boswell, brother of writer James Boswell, stalks his older sibling down the Thames with sinister intent. John…
A Monster’s Note
What would it mean if Mary Shelley’s monster had been real? What implications would there be for her story, what…
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