Literary
The Home Child
Genres:
Here’s something unusual—a historical novel rendered almost entirely through a collection of poetry. Liz Berry is a much-lauded British poet, known ...Read Review
The Story of the Forest
Genres:
In Latvia, 14-year-old Mina Mendel wanders into the forest gathering mushrooms when she meets a group of Bolsheviks who introduce her to new ...Read Review
Mere
Genres:
In the 10th-century Norfolk Fens, a remote community of nuns and peasants struggles to survive a harsh winter and a harsh abbess. This ...Read Review
Eclipse
Genres:
Appearing for the first time in an English translation, Eclipse tells the story of a 15th-century Dominican friar whose quest for pre-Christian philosophy ...Read Review
Outside Women
Genres:
Hajra, a Pakistani academic living in New York, attends a lecture on indentured Indian women who were sent to Natal, South Africa, in ...Read Review
The Evening Shades
Genres:
This story is billed as that of a chronically single man with secrets in his past who finds love later in life. On ...Read Review
Cold Grace
Genres:
On a lakeside somewhere in North America, a nameless girl is locked in a smokehouse. The door opens, and two terrified young boys ...Read Review
NUNC!
Genres:
This is a fictionalised retelling of ‘Nunc Dimittis’, ten verses in Luke’s Gospel about the elderly prophet Simeon who waited for the ...Read Review
Perspective(s) (US) / Perspectives (UK)
Genres:
An unusual epistolary novel, Perspective(s) is a murder mystery and historical romp set in late 16th-century Florence. In the preface, a 19th-century ...Read Review
Crossing from Shore to Shore
Genres:
In 1918 Connecticut, two brothers—shoemaker Erasmo Perretta and his invalid brother Giuseppe—are arrested for allegedly murdering their neighbor. Jean P. Moore imagines ...Read Review
