Literary

Kinfolk

By Sean Dietrich - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Living in the fictional town of Park, Alabama, in 1972, sixty-something absentee father, Nub, has been perpetually drunk since his father’s suicide in 1921. ...Read Review

A Calamity of Mannerings

By Joanna Nadin - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

If you want a coming-of-age book full of warmth and wit, look no further than Carnegie-nominated author Joanna Nadin’s story of 1920s ...Read Review

A Volga Tale

By Guzel Yakhina - By Polly Gannon (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

A Volga Tale tells a tale of two worlds on opposite sides of the Volga River. On the left bank is the endless ...Read Review

The Vaster Wilds

By Lauren Groff - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This devastatingly beautiful meditation on nature, divinity, and survival is the second volume of a planned triptych begun last year with Groff’s ...Read Review

Let Us Descend

By Jesmyn Ward - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review

Cahokia Jazz

By Francis Spufford - Published 2023

Genres:

Alternate HistoryLiteraryMystery/Crime

It is 1922, and in a mythical city in the Midwestern United States an Aztec-style murder has been discovered on a rooftop. This sets ...Read Review

Again and Again

By Jonathan Evison - Published 2023

Genres:

LiteraryTime-slip

Geno, an elderly man living in an assisted living facility, believes that he has lived many lives over the course of more than ...Read Review

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

By Anna Funder - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a work that gives shape to the historically obscure figure of Eileen O’Shaughnessy (1905...Read Review

The Future Future

By Adam Thirlwell - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

It is quite a challenge to succinctly summarise a novel that does not have much of a plot. Literary? Yes, Clever? well, that’...Read Review

North Woods

By Daniel Mason - Published 2023

Genres:

EpicLiterary

From the moment two forbidden lovers – the prospective wife of an abusive minister and a reported troublemaker she ironically met at church – flee ...Read Review

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