Literary
Scapegallows
Editors' choice
A ‘scapegallows’ is one who deserves and has narrowly escaped hanging. One such is Margaret Catchpole, born in Suffolk, who…
Strangely Wonderful
Reading the first page of this novel, I knew I was in for something completely different. I admit to feeling…
Song Yet Sung
Editors' choice
Written by the author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water, this novel is set in the 1850s. Liz,…
The Tea House
During the summer of 1925, to entertain themselves and their friends, Michael and Emily Stewart, thirteen-year-old fraternal twins, dabble in…
The Palace of Illusions
Set in a mythic age, “when the lives of men and gods still intersected,” this new novel from feminist writer…
The Maytrees
Editors' choice
The novel opens in Provincetown, Massachusetts, just after the Second World War. Toby Maytree, a thirty-year-old poet and part-time…
The Commoner
In 1959, lovely young Haruko becomes the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family when she weds the…
The Seeker
The Seeker is the story of the unusual relationship between Madeleine Slade, a British woman, and Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi believes…
The Expeditions
Editors' choice
Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the…
Light
Off the Isle of Man lies the tiny island of Ellan Bride, an outpost of fabulous isolation, often veiled from…
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