Literary
The Book of Negroes
Africa, 1755. Aminata, age 11, is captured by slave traders and sold into slavery in South Carolina, where she suffers…
Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire
The murmur of Yeats forms the essence of this haunting novel: “Sacrifices might come in many different forms. Too long…
The Islands of Divine Music
Rosari Cara, the daughter of a peasant barber whose wife left him, is constantly poring over books and newspapers while…
Alexander and Alestria
Alexander the Great was crowned King of Macedonia in 336 BC and soon after began asserting his authority through his…
The Spanish Bow
In the wake of 9/11, American journalist and travel writer Andromeda Romano-Lax asked herself: if I could write about…
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
This a poignant love story spanning three periods of India’s turbulent history between 1907 and the mid 1950s and…
The Lazarus Project
History and literary narrative are inextricably interwoven in MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Hemon’s latest work. Two stories are told: one…
The Outcast
Editors' choice
Set in a middle-class commuter town in southern England in the late 1940s and 1950s, this is a highly…
Daphne
Here is a novel which combines the life stories and the novels of Daphne du Maurier and the Brontës, a…
Courting Shadows
One would be hard-pressed to find a more unpleasant protagonist than John Stannard. A young architect commissioned in 1881 to…
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