Literary
The Lairds of Cromarty
Some books are a real surprise, and this is one of them. What is at heart a detective story becomes…
Where Tigers Are at Home
Each chapter of this novel begins with a selection from a biography of the 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, purportedly…
Kafka in Love
Kafka in Love presents a prose summary of hundreds if not thousands of letters and diary entries intently pored over…
The Hunger Angel
The fact that this book’s German title, Atemschaukel, translates as something like “Breath Swing,” while the British edition is titled…
The Frost on His Shoulders
The 1930s in the Spanish Pyrenees, very close to the French border. I found it easy to believe an isolated…
A Winter’s Night
The Brunis are tenant farmers in Italy’s Po Valley at the start of the 20th century. They frequently make their…
Black Dynasty
Black Dynasty tells the story of African-American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ruthless shopkeeper Willard Stone…
Following Tommy
Following Tommy is a slim but powerful atmospheric novel that propels the reader directly to the mean streets of 1960s…
The Last Runaway
Editors' choice
A young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, has left her civilized home of Bridport in England for the wild, untamed wilderness…
Sarah Thornhill
As she did in the first book of this trilogy, The Secret River, Kate Grenville delves into her family history…
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