Algonquin Books
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
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Behind the sensational headlines of Oscar Wilde’s affair with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas is Oscar’s family dealing with the fallout. This “...Read Review
Their Divine Fires
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Yunhong grows up poor but happy in the Chinese countryside in the early years of the 20th century. An unexpected encounter with a ...Read Review
The Swan’s Nest
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In the 1840s, Elizabeth Barrett, well-known as a poet but confined by poor health to her family’s home in London’s Wimpole ...Read Review
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
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Acts of resistance take many forms. For the Jews confined in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis in November 1940, conditions are miserable: cramped ...Read Review
The Nightingale Affair
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In 1855, the Crimean War still rages, and within the walls of the Barracks Hospital, another war takes place between the male doctors and ...Read Review
Dust Child
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There have been many books written about the Vietnam War. This novel offers a unique perspective of a bloody tragedy which was played ...Read Review
Jackie & Me
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The eventful life of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis has inspired many fictional retellings; Bayard has made the curious choice to imagine the courtship ...Read Review
A Theater for Dreamers
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In 1960 the Greek island of Hydra hosted a community of writers and artists, including George Johnston and Charmian Clift, Leonard Cohen, his muse ...Read Review
Libertie: A Novel
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On the surface, Libertie is a coming-of-age novel. Libertie Sampson, free-born, dark Black daughter of the much lighter and more self-assured Dr. Catherine ...Read Review
The Mountains Sing
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This was a difficult book to read with the world as we know it being torn apart by the Corona virus, but it ...Read Review
