Literary
The Train of Small Mercies
The year is 1968, and Americans are wondering what has gone wrong with their country; the war in Vietnam rages…
A Partial History of Lost Causes
In 1979 Leningrad, a stranger, Aleksandr Bezetov, arrives in town from the eastern USSR. He befriends three dissidents, and although…
Azazeel
Set in the 5th century AD, these are the memoirs of Hypa, a Coptic monk. His journey begins when his…
The Invisible City
In 1759 King Charles III and his royal court moved from Naples to Spain, and with them came the engineers…
The Garden of Evening Mists
Malaysian Chinese Judge Teoh Yun Ling takes early retirement from the Bench in 1987 without telling anyone why. Now free…
The Needle in the Blood
The Norman Conquest of England was one of the pivotal events of the Middle Ages. In 1066, William the Conqueror…
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
This beautifully imagined and written novel, which feels more like a literary biography than a fiction, tells the story of…
Bereft
Quinn Walker returns to his home town of Flint, New South Wales, Australia after terrible experiences in the Great War.…
Girl Reading
Ward’s debut novel is a brave, original effort. The concept is irresistible: Seven girls/women read while living out a portion…
Cain
This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So…
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