Pantheon
There Your Heart Lies
In 1937, a year into the Spanish Civil War, New Yorkers Marian and Russell are on board the SS Normandie…
War and Turpentine
Editors' choice
Classified as fiction, this fascinating book seems to be a hybrid of memoir, biography and fiction. The author’s subject is…
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
The beginning of the novel is somewhat ominously familiar: a perfect English setting in the early years of the 20th…
Carry Me
Editors' choice
Before the First World War, young Billy Lange is captivated by a family friend, Karin Weinbrenner. In the novel’s opening…
The Stargazer’s Sister
Carrie Brown’s seventh novel, The Stargazer’s Sister, is the richly-told tale of Caroline Herschel, sister of the famous astronomer, William…
How to Be Both
This unusual novel is memorable as well as lyrical. Smith tells the story of a Renaissance artist and a 21st-century…
The Empire of the Senses
Editors' choice
The years leading up to World War II provide the setting for this powerful, engrossing debut novel exploring themes of…
Into the Savage Country
William Wyeth cannot get the itch to explore out of his system. “I craved the forest and woods and the…
A Map of Betrayal
Editors' choice
Was the Chinese spy Gary Shang, who loved his homeland but also the country on which he is spying, a…
The Moor’s Account
In 1527, conquistador Narváez sails from Spain for Florida with an armada of 600 men. His objective is to capture…
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