Harvill Secker
Philida
Philida is a knitting girl, a slave in the household of Cornelis Brink whose job is to knit clothes for…
Raised from the Ground
Editors' choice
Nobel Prize Laureate José Saramago’s (1922-2010) most autobiographical novel opens with the statement “I was born in a family of…
Seven Houses in France
The Belgian occupation of the Congo was one of the bloodiest, cruelest events in modern history, a fact reflected in…
HHhH
HHhH (“Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich,” that is, “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”) tells the thrilling story of Slovak Jozef Gabćik…
Beautiful Lies
Editors' choice
London, 1887. The country is absorbed by Queen Victoria’s Jubilee and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show, with an economic…
The White Shadow
According to my library book group, readers either liked or hated The White Shadow. I can understand that. It is…
Cain
This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So…
The Flowers of War
In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as…
The Prague Cemetery
Renowned primarily for his novel The Name of the Rose, the reader approaches a new Eco work of fiction wondering…
The Devil All the Time
Pollock returns to southern Ohio, the setting for his collection of short stories, Knockemstiff, and unleashes a bizarre and compelling…
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