Literary
The Teahouse Fire
In New York in 1865, little Aurelia Corneille, the illegitimate child of a French maid, is orphaned. Her uncle Charles…
A Respectable Trade
Fans of Gregory’s phenomenally successful Tudor novels will encounter a more somber, pensive writer in A Respectable Trade. Re-issued by…
In the Last Blue
The story of the Majorcan Jews in the time of the Inquisition during the 17th century is one with which…
The Weight of Smoke: A Novel of the Jamestown Colony
In 1607, the English founded the Jamestown colony in the New World, led by men who considered themselves gentlemen. Not…
The Saffron Kitchen
“‘And what does my father believe?’ Ali frowned. ‘Tradition, I suppose.’ ‘In spite of all its blood and misery?… As…
The Moldavian Pimp
In present-day Buenos Aires, the narrator, a journalism student, begins a dissertation about early 20th century Yiddish theatre. He finds…
Lachlan’s War
Usually I am allergic to novels like this, in which the story is told in the present tense. The technique…
Cotton Song
Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road…
A Dead Language
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton is the naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly in Puccini’s famous opera. A Dead Language, sequel to…
Inés of My Soul
Editors' choice
Doña Inés Suárez tells the epic story of her life and the conquest of Chile in this fictional biography. Inés,…
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