Literary
In the Shadow of the Sword
This is certainly a book with a difference. It is cited as fiction, but I would suggest that that is…
Life After Life
Editors' choice
Ursula Todd is born in February 1910 to a comfortable middle class family in the ease and seemingly unending stability…
Is This Tomorrow
Single mother Ava Lark is doing everything she can to raise her son alone. In the 1950s in Waltham, Massachusetts,…
The Royal Physician’s Visit
In 1768 a magnetic, handsome German physician named Struensee became royal physician to King Christian VII of Denmark. Struensee was…
Creole Son
In 1872, Edgar Degas left Paris to visit New Orleans, the birthplace of his deceased mother and the current home…
Brief Lives that Live Forever
This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian…
The Hanging Garden
This short unfinished novel by the late Nobel prizewinner Patrick White (1912-1990) provides a tantalizing peek inside the minds of…
Harvest
This affecting novel offers a glimpse into the life of a remote English village poised between the feudalism of the…
Red Sky in Morning
Coll Coyle makes a dreadful mistake that changes the course of his life and is set to lose everything as…
Gloria
Editors' choice
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is 16 when a violent deed forces her to flee to Kingston with her sister. There…
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