Literary
Burnt Shadows
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is…
A Quiet Flame
Editors' choice
Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph…
Madewell Brown
When Obie Poole, a retired Negro League baseball player from the ’20s, met Rachael Poole, he knew this orphan girl…
The Book of Night Women
Editors' choice
The Book of Night Women is a beautifully written, sweeping tale of Jamaican slavery set in the early 19th century.…
Rifling Paradise
Charles Redbourne, a minor middle-aged English landholder, is forced by a series of unsavory circumstances to flee to Australia in…
Woodsburner
In this novel based on a true story, Henry David Thoreau accidentally sets fire to three hundred acres of woods…
The Rose of Sebastopol
In The Rose of Sebastopol the horrors of the Crimean War are described by a most unlikely narrator—Mariella Lingwood, a…
Waterlily
Waterlily is the child of Blue Bird. Her mother gives birth to her alone, during a long march. Blue Bird’s…
The Seance
John Harwood, the Australian author of The Ghost Writer, won the 2004 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.…
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