Literary
Sacred Hearts
In Renaissance Italy the Council of Trent moves to purge convent life of the contamination of the outside world, the…
Rooftops of Tehran
In this stirring coming-of-age story set in Iran under the Shah, Mahbod Seraji pens a poignant tale of forbidden love…
Once on a Moonless Night
Editors' choice
This latest novel from the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is another tour de force of intertwined…
Ask Alice
From the windswept prairies of Kansas to downtown Chicago, and from rural Norfolk to the rarefied atmosphere of Chelsea and…
Mrs. Lincoln
Born in 1819 and brought up in Kentucky in a slave-owning family, Mary Lincoln visited a black one-legged ‘conjure woman’…
Remember Me
Editors' choice
I knew Melvyn Bragg at Oxford; I left college the term before the action in Remember Me begins, so I…
The Englishman’s Boy
Two story lines present the title character, caught up in a massacre in 1870s Saskatchewan, and the machinations of 1920s…
A Mad Desire to Dance
This elegiac novel follows Doriel, a man who fears he is either mad or possessed by a dybukk, and Dr.…
Cutting for Stone
Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates…
The Rescue Man
This is first novel of Anthony Quinn, film critic of The Independent, and a most impressive debut it is. Liverpool…
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