Helene Williams
Vertigo
For sixteen years Emma Smith has been the perfect wife and society showpiece for her husband, famous novelist John Smith.…
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Whether or not you’ve read the original Peter Pan, you are no doubt familiar with at least the high points…
Restless
Editors' choice
Ruth is a young single mother in mid-1970s Oxford, teaching English to foreign students and executives while avoiding working on…
The Friends Of Meager Fortune
From the first page of celebrated Canadian author Richards’ (River of the Brokenhearted) latest novel, the reader knows that this…
Taken By Storm
In mid-19th century Scotland, a poor person in trouble with the law didn’t have much hope of escaping a hard…
Archie And Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
Archie Chanler, heir to the Astor fortune, and Amélie Rives were the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day: the…
Spring And Fall
It’s 1962, with intellectual, cultural, and sexual revolutions in full swing on college campuses when Lawrence, a Harvard senior in…
Blue Nude
Rosner’s quiet, subtle second novel (after The Speed of Light, 2001) once again shows the effect of history on…
Cellophane
The boundaries between jungle and civilization, river and land, natives and interlopers are explored, broken, and re-established in Arana’s breathtaking…
Darcy’s Story
Unsatisfied with Jane Austen’s exposition of the changes wrought in Fitzwilliam Darcy, the hero of Pride and Prejudice? Do you…
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