Literary
Ysabel
Guy Gavriel Kay has mesmerized readers with his realistic, historically-steeped novels set in alternate versions of actual eras and places.…
Finn
Huckleberry Finn’s drunken father is the inspiration for this novel, which owes more to William Faulkner in style than the…
Summer Crossing
Set in post-WWII New York, Summer Crossing tells the story of young socialite Grady McNeil. While her parents set sail…
Restless
Editors' choice
Ruth is a young single mother in mid-1970s Oxford, teaching English to foreign students and executives while avoiding working on…
Symphony
Editors' choice
This stunning novel illuminates the passionate and stormy union of great Romantic composer, Hector Berlioz, and Anglo-Irish actress, Harriet Smithson,…
The Fall Of Troy
In this small but perfectly formed novel, Peter Ackroyd returns to the themes of fakes and forgeries. Set during the…
Red River
Editors' choice
“This is not a story to go down easy, and the backwash still got hold of us today. The history…
On Agate Hill
Editors' choice
Lee Smith is a talented novelist who has written an absorbing novel of the post-Civil War South. Molly Petree is…
Spring And Fall
It’s 1962, with intellectual, cultural, and sexual revolutions in full swing on college campuses when Lawrence, a Harvard senior in…
Golden Country
Jennifer Gilmore’s debut novel is a sweeping story of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York during the twentieth century. Many…
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