Grove Press

River Spirit

By Leila Aboulela - Published 2023

Genres:

The Nuba Mountains, Sudan, in 1881, and a village woman slips from her husband’s bed, evades soldiers on guard, and runs through the ...Read Review

Stella

By Liesl Schillinger (trans.) - By Takis Würger - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

How do people rationalize maintaining relationships with others who hold abhorrent views? This question makes Stella especially relevant – because its author is German, ...Read Review

Animalia: A Novel

By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

It takes all of a few paragraphs into Animalia to begin to suspect that the book might be a masterpiece. By the end ...Read Review

The Bird King

By G. Willow Wilson - Published 2019

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

The year is 1491, and Granada, the last foothold of Islamic rule in Iberia, is under siege. Food is running short, but the inhabitants ...Read Review

The Parisian

By Isabella Hammad - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Midhat Kamal, the main character in this story of Europe and Palestine in the early 1900s, leaves Nablus to study medicine in France, ...Read Review

The Heavens

By Sandra Newman - Published 2019

Genres:

Time-slip

In 2000, Ben meets Kate at an activist’s fancy party in Manhattan, and he is instantly smitten. Kate is ethereal, mysterious, and just ...Read Review

Correspondents

By Tim Murphy - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

This is an absorbing and candid behind-the-scenes journey into the life of a foreign correspondent. Rita Khoury is an Irish-Lebanese-American woman who is ...Read Review

Then We Take Berlin

By John Lawton - Published 2013

Genres:

Thriller

This is really two stories, both centring on Berlin. The first begins in 1941 when John Holderness, commonly known as Wilderness, finds himself living ...Read Review

A Lily of the Field

By John Lawton - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no ordinary murder/...Read Review

Cleopatra Dismounts

By Carmen Boullosa - By tr. Geoff Hargreaves - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy

Three long sections narrated by Cleopatra are framed by briefer sections told by her scribe Diomedes. In the first narrative, Antony has just ...Read Review