Random House
Tipperary
Born into an Anglo-Irish family, Charles O’Brien loves Ireland with a fierce passion; this sentiment is wonderfully conveyed in his…
Cheap Diamonds
It’s New York in the early 1970s, and fresh-faced (though freakishly white-haired) Cherry Marshall from Arkansas has arrived with a…
Peony in Love
Editors' choice
Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women…
Special Assignments
In this latest addition to the Erast Fandorin series, Akunin offers his international fans a double dose of intriguing and…
Tom Bedlam
The author has Charles Dickens among his favorite authors, but Tom Bedlam reminds me more of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett,…
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
Philologist, critic, essayist and translator from the Japanese Grigory Chkhartishvili adopts the pen name of Boris Akunin for this anticipated…
Killing Che
Editors' choice
Bolivia, 1967: Paul Hoyle, an ex-CIA paramilitary with experience in Laos, Vietnam and various Latin American hot spots, is now…
Zoli
“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Seventy-three years have passed now across…
The Castle in the Forest
Mailer never rests on his laurels and never fails to shock and surprise. In this novel, the 84-year-old Pulitzer Prize…
Heyday
For those who enjoyed Kurt Andersen’s Turn of the Century, with its picture of New York City around the year…
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