Literary
The Dream of the Jaguar
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Miguel Bonnefoy, born in France to a Venezuelan mother and Chilean father, created this family saga beginning in the 1930s, to illuminate Venezuela’...Read Review
The Sorrow of Angels (The Trilogy About the Boy Book 2)
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In this second book in a trilogy (after Heaven and Hell), a teenager – “the boy” – has appeared in an early 20th-century Icelandic fishing ...Read Review
Shades of Yellow
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Shades of Yellow is a dual-timeline novel, though not in the usual sense. Wendy Dunn’s central character is Lucy, a woman facing ...Read Review
White River Crossing
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Ian McGuire’s novel, fittingly tagged ‘cinematic’ and ‘bloody’, drops us into the vast wilderness in 1766 at Hudson Bay, inside the Company’s ...Read Review
Hotel Melikov (Citizen Orlov)
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This book is a sequel to Payne’s Citizen Orlov (2024), and like that book is less pure historical fiction than a sly allegory ...Read Review
Shadow Ticket
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The latest novel by Thomas Pynchon centers on a union-buster-turned-private eye, Hicks McTaggart, assigned to find a runaway Wisconsin Cheese heiress, daughter of ...Read Review
Glamorous Powers (New Edition)
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Susan Howatch’s Glamorous Powers, set in the 1940s, follows Jonathan Darrow, an ageing Anglican abbot whose mystical gifts and sudden visions compel ...Read Review
The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter
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Nwosu’s allegorical novel dwells on a universal question of the relevance of our existence. In 1874 Savannah, Black slave Nella Carter is about ...Read Review
Centroeuropa
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Centroeuropa is the tale of a widower, Redo Hauptshammer, who claims a plot of land in Prussia during the early years of the 19...Read Review
Heap Earth Upon It
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The Irish have a reputation for lyricism, and Howarth’s second novel, set in a small Irish village in 1965, will not disappoint. The ...Read Review
