Toby
Enduring
Editors' choice
The novel encompasses the breadth of the 20th century as it follows the life of Latha Bourne, a resident of…
The Sound of Building Coffins
In 1891 New Orleans, a black preacher named Noonday Morningstar, with the help of his son Typhus, saves the infant…
The Messiah
Author Marek Halter was born in Warsaw and at age five crawled with his family through the sewers to escape…
In the Meantime
I Kathryn, Starling, and Luke meet as young children in small-town America in 1931, and become fast friends. In this…
The Misremembered Man
I could never laugh at “Fawlty Towers.” John Cleese’s performance as a man falling apart was painful for me, not…
Brothers
This Toby Press thirtieth anniversary edition of the novel first published in the seventies may be appearing to take advantage…
Speak Right On: Dred Scott
Neighbour takes the few known facts about Dred Scott and fleshes them out into a biographical novel. Dred, descendant of…
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