Melville House

Relentless Melt

By Jeremy P. Bushnell - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In October 1909, 17-year-old Artie Quick is nervously endeavoring to sneak into a YMCA class on criminal investigation in Boston. Wearing her brother’s ...Read Review

Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey

By John Sayles - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Scotland, 1746, and Jamie MacGillivray, shivering in the rain, brings a message from France to Lord Lovat, the Auld Fox, his Hogarth portrait vividly ...Read Review

The Village Idiot

By Steve Stern - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

The eccentric life and adventures of renowned Expressionist painter Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) in early 20th-century Paris is hypnotically imagined in The Village Idiot, ...Read Review

The Stone World

By Joel Agee - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

All of us were children once, of course, but most of us can no longer feel what it feels like to be six. ...Read Review

The Great Eastern

By Howard Rodman - Published 2019

Genres:

Alternate History

I have never read anything quite like The Great Eastern – an addictive, steampunk fantasy that blends 19th-century fact with characters from 19th-century fiction. ...Read Review

After Midnight

By Anthea Bell (trans.) - By Irmgard Keun - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

“A writer who is afraid is no true writer,” say the bohemian characters in Irmgard Keun’s 1937 novel, though the words could’ve ...Read Review