Literary
The Ingenious Edgar Jones
Picture this: A meteorite spills a shower of stars into the sky one cold February night in 1847 Oxford, England.…
The Glass of Time
Editors' choice
Esperanza Gorst is an orphan, raised in Paris by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l’Orme. When she is in…
Darwin: A Life in Poems
As part of the two anniversary events in 2009—two hundred years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years…
The Last Dickens
Editors' choice
If you love reading Charles Dickens, this novel will be heaven-sent. If you’re not a big fan of Dickens, you…
A Mercy
In the late 17th century, slavery was in its infancy, as was the sugarcane industry. Morrison’s prose is confident…
The Father of Locks
Andrew Killeen’s debut novel introduces us to an engaging and resourceful rogue, the court poet and sometimes spy Abu Nawas,…
Cast Not the Day
The central character of this book, set in the middle of the 4th century AD, is Drusus, a young British…
By George
Ventriloquists’ dummies can seem rather macabre and a little disturbing, and this novel has an element of the bizarre about…
Shaman Winter
In the late 1990s Albuquerque resident and private investigator Sonny Baca is recovering from his latest run-in with his nemesis,…
Land of Marvels
Somerville, a British archaeologist, is spending his third season working on Tell Erdek in Mesopotamia just months before the start…
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